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Bardian BARD COLLEGE SPRING 2014

Troy Simon ’16 at the White House

dear bardians, Did you know that you belong to the Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association? If you attended Bard for at least one year, you are automatically a member. But what does membership involve? The mission of the Association is to foster connections among alumni/ae, as well as to support Bard and its current students. The Association’s Board of Governors is made up of committees that meet regularly and plan a wide variety of activities, such as career networking events and mentoring programs, designed to keep you connected to the Bard community. Without alumni/ae support, the College would not be able to offer financial aid, superior faculty and resources, or the numerous amenities that make a Bard education unique. In that spirit, I hope Peter Criswell ’89. photo Fernando Trejo you will consider joining a committee (Career Connections, Communications, Development, Diversity, Events, Nominations, Oral History, Strategic Planning, and Young Alumni/ae) and help organize the programs and activities of the Association wherever you live. As Board president I’m working on three main goals. First, I want to explore the “universe” of Bard and determine how we can better connect with alumni/ae from the many campuses and programs that Bard operates. Second, I want to diversify our Board of Governors to better reflect our alumni/ae makeup. The majority of our alumni/ae graduated in the past 20 years; that number is not accurately represented on the Board. Third, I want to strengthen our committee structure, making sure that each committee has solid goals that feed into the Board’s objectives. Did you know there is a Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association Facebook page? It’s regularly updated and encourages postings by alumni/ae. There are also various satellite Bard Facebook pages for alums with specific interests or locations, such as Bard European Alumni/ae Network, Bard in L.A., and Bard in the ’80s. A Bard Alumni/ae LinkedIn group has professional information for more than 2,250 Bardians. You can also follow Bardian happenings on Twitter at twitter.com/BardCollege. Important! Please save the date for Commencement Weekend, May 23–25, 2014. If you are in a reunion class (it’s my 25th!), please sign up. I hope you’ll enjoy this issue of the Bardian. Be sure to check out coverage of the keynote address by Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama at the inaugural Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, concerns, and suggestions. The Board and I look forward to hearing your ideas on how we can better serve you, the Bard community. Warm wishes, Peter Criswell ’89 (petercriswell@gmail.com) President, Board of Governors, Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association board of governors of the bard–st. stephen’s alumni/ae association Peter Criswell ’89, President; Strategic Planning Committee Chair Brandon Weber ’97, Vice President; Annual Fund Cochair Josh Bell ’98, Secretary/Treasurer; Communications Committee Chair Robert Amsterdam ’53 Claire Angelozzi ’74 David Avallone ’87, Oral History Committee Chair Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56 Jack Blum ’62 Evan Nicole Brown ’16, Current Student Representative Cathaline Cantalupo ’67 Pia Carusone ’03 Kathleya Chotiros ’98 Charles Clancy III ’69 Andrew Corrigan ’00, Development Committee Cochair Arnold Davis ’44, Nominations Committee Cochair Randy Faerber ’73, Events Committee Cochair Andrew Fowler ’95 Eric Warren Goldman ’98 Boriana Handjiyska ’02, Career Connections Committee Chair Dr. Ann Ho ’62 Maggie Hopp ’67 JP Kingsbury ’03, Young Alumni/ae Cochair (East Coast) Isaac Liberman ’04 Michelle Dunn Marsh ’95, Development Committee Cochair Peter F. McCabe ’70, Nominations Committee Cochair Steven Miller ’70 Anne Morris-Stockton ’68 Anna Neverova ’07 Karen Olah ’65 Patricia Pforte ’08, Young Alumni/ae Cochair (West Coast) Susan Playfair ’62

Roger Scotland ’93 Henry Seltzer ’06 KC Serota ’04, Diversity Committee Chair Mackie Siebens ’12, Annual Fund Cochair Barry Silkowitz ’71 George A. Smith ’82, Events Committee Cochair Dr. Ingrid Spatt ’69 Walter Swett ’96, Nominations Committee Cochair Olivier te Boekhorst ’93 Paul Thompson ’93 Dr. Toni-Michelle Travis ’69 Matt Wing ’06 Emeritus Dr. Penny Axelrod ’63 Eva Thal Belefant ’49 Kit Ellenbogen ’52 Barbara Grossman Flanagan ’60 Diana Hirsch Friedman ’68 R. Michael Glass ’75 Charles Hollander ’65 Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65 Reva Minkin Sanders ’56 Barbara Crane Wigren ’68

board of trustees of bard college David E. Schwab II ’52, Chair Emeritus Charles P. Stevenson Jr., Chair Emily H. Fisher, Vice Chair Elizabeth Ely ’65, Secretary; Life Trustee Stanley A. Reichel ’65, Treasurer Fiona Angelini Roland J. Augustine

Leon Botstein, President of the College + Stuart Breslow + Mark E. Brossman Thomas M. Burger + James C. Chambers ’81 David C. Clapp Marcelle Clements ’69, Alumni/ae Trustee The Rt. Rev. Andrew M. L. Dietsche, Honorary Trustee Asher B. Edelman ’61, Life Trustee Paul S. Efron Robert S. Epstein ’63 Barbara S. Grossman ’73, Alumni/ae Trustee Sally Hambrecht George F. Hamel Jr. Marieluise Hessel Maja Hoffmann Matina S. Horner + Charles S. Johnson III ’70 Mark N. Kaplan, Life Trustee George A. Kellner Murray Liebowitz, Life Trustee Marc S. Lipschultz Peter H. Maguire ’88 Fredric S. Maxik ’86 James H. Ottaway Jr., Life Trustee Martin Peretz, Life Trustee Stewart Resnick, Life Trustee Roger N. Scotland ’93, Alumni/ae Trustee Martin T. Sosnoff Susan Weber Patricia Ross Weis ’52 +ex officio

right Black Doorway, Amy Sillman MFA ’95, 2011 (see page 30). cover President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama with Troy Simon ’16 at the White House (see page 26). photo Pete Souza

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Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs Debra Pemstein, Vice President for Development and Alumni/ae Affairs 845-758-7405, pemstein@bard.edu Jane Brien ’89, Director of Alumni/ae Affairs 845-758-7406, brien@bard.edu

Achebe Leadership Forum

Bard Music Festival Turns 25

Coloring the World Orange

Filmmaking’s Next Generation

The Debate over Drones

Fanfare for an Uncommon Composer

A Summer Education

Anne Canzonetti ’84, Deputy Director of Alumni/ae Affairs 845-758-7187, canzonet@bard.edu

Making Chemistry Green

Grayson Morley ’13, Program Assistant, Alumni/ae Affairs 845-758-7089, gmorley@bard.edu

“Notes and Words” Earn Pianist a MacArthur

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john dramani mahama

achebe leadership forum by Cynthia Werthamer

once i had discovered the works of chinua achebe and other african writers, the love of their stories inspired me to not only want to write my own, but to even dare to imagine that i could.

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The appearance at Bard of John Dramani Mahama, president of the Republic of Ghana, honored two of his late mentors: former South African President Nelson Mandela and author and Bard professor Chinua Achebe. He commemorated them, the president said, “because of the power of the word—more accurately, the power of many words.” The first sitting president of a nation ever to speak at Bard, Mahama was invited by Achebe’s family to address the inaugural Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum in December. The forum—sponsored by Bard’s Chinua Achebe Center, Africana Studies Program, and Center for Civic Engagement—is a high-profile international venue for discussing Africa’s challenges, in keeping with Achebe’s values and life’s work, and showcasing voices of Africa on literary, cultural, social, and political issues in an intellectually stimulating environment. “President Mahama greatly admires Chinua’s work and he graciously accepted the invitation to speak at Bard, which had been Professor Achebe’s home for so long,” said Jonathan Becker, vice president and dean for international affairs and civic engagement. “When news of the death of Nelson Mandela reached the world, the Achebe family and President Mahama felt it was important to conscientiously weave into the proceedings the memory of these two great men, Achebe and Mandela, both of whom passed away in 2013.” Indeed, the forum was moved up one day to enable Mahama to fly to South Africa for Mandela’s funeral. In his keynote address, Mahama spoke glowingly of the “rite of passage” he experienced 40 years ago when he read Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s pivotal first novel. “It changed the way I felt about myself, and the world around me,” Mahama said. ‘“Storytelling has to do with power,’ Professor Achebe is famously quoted as saying. ‘If you do not like someone’s story, write your own.’ Once I had discovered the works of Chinua Achebe and other African writers, the love of their stories inspired me to not only want to write my own, but to even dare to imagine that I could.” Mahama eventually did write his own book—My First Coup d’Etat and Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa, published in 2012—and had the manuscript sent to Achebe, “my literary hero.” Achebe read it and offered Mahama “some of the most encouraging words any new writer could ever hope to hear.” The two men never met; a colloquium Achebe hosted in 2012, at which Mahama was to have appeared, “was election day in Ghana, and I was on the ballot,”

John Dramani Mahama. photo ©Charles Platiau/Reuters/Corbis

the president said, amid laughter. “When an advance invitation was extended to me for participation in an Achebe event this December [2013], I gave my word that I would definitely be there. How could I have known that Professor Achebe would not?” Though Mahama’s two mentors later met in person, they first came together via a videotape, presented at the forum, that Mandela recorded for Achebe’s 70th birthday celebration at Bard in 2000. In the message, Mandela spoke of the magic of books that transported him beyond the penitentiary in which he was incarcerated for 27 years for his opposition to South Africa’s policy of apartheid. Through Achebe’s work, Mandela said, “the prison walls fell down.”

otal role in this economic progression?” she asked. Peter Rosenblum, professor of international law and human rights at Bard, asked what percentage of Ghana’s new oil resources reaches subsistence farmers, many of whom are women. Mahama garnered applause for listing the high number of women ministers in his government. He added, “Women constitute more than half our population. There’s no way you can keep half of your population down and think that you can move at an optimum pace as a country.” Bard President Leon Botstein, unable to attend the forum because of the change in schedule, sent a message. He said of Achebe, who was Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor Emeritus of Languages

But Mahama’s own words, and the forum itself, went beyond the tribute to the two great men to examine the challenges that ordinary women in Africa face. Mahama told of watching a documentary in which a Ghanaian girl, about 12 years old, described men attacking her—“another story that changed the way that I felt about myself and the world around me,” Mahama said. After expressing incredulity, then shock, Mahama admitted, “I think deep down, though I was not yet prepared to admit it, I knew that what I’d heard was . . . the truth for a lot of young girls in Ghana and all across the African continent.” He spoke of seeing “the gross inequalities, financial and otherwise,” visited upon African women: “And I made a promise to the young girl whose words had opened my eyes that I would use whatever influence I could—as a politician, as a husband, as a father, and as an ordinary citizen—to make sure that other girl children are able to live their lives without an ever-present fear of sexual abuse.” During a roundtable discussion on the role of women in the development and democratization of Africa, speakers addressed the topic from a variety of perspectives. Hon. Nana Oye Lithur, Ghana’s minister for gender, children, and social protection, noted that in Ghana, one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, GDP is expected to grow by 5.5 percent in 2014. “Will we as African women play a piv-

and Literature, “I speak for all of the faculty when I say that I was proud to call Chinua a friend and colleague. There was no greater a writer, and no more noble and courageous a man, than Chinua.” He added, “President Mahama should know how grateful Bard is for his visit. . . . That he serves as the president of a major African nation, and is an accomplished author, only adds to the honor he does the College, its students, faculty, and staff.” Christie Achebe, visiting professor of psychology at Bard from 1992 to 2009, spoke of her late husband’s many accomplishments, then said, “But it is Chinua’s long and fruitful relationship with Bard College . . . that brings us here to celebrate his life and work,” and she thanked Botstein for his “great personal interest and dedication.” Myra Young Armstead, professor of history at Bard, said Achebe’s “inspirational quality . . . had local as well as global resonance. Those of us at Bard knew him to be a very gracious and gentle person, both wise and witty, but always firm in speaking the truth as he saw it.” The evening ended, as it had begun, in gratitude. The last speaker, Dr. Chidi Achebe ’92, spoke movingly of the distances many had traveled to be at the forum before thanking the many students for attending, and choked up as he gave thanks to Mandela and “finally, to the spirit of our beloved dad, Chinua Achebe.”

Left: Chinua Achebe and Nelson Mandela. photo Anna Zieminkski, AFP/Getty Images Right: Dr. Chidi Achebe ’92. photo China Jorrin ’86

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´ˇ ANACEK AND HIS WORLD

EDITED BY MICHAEL BECKERMAN

SERGEY PROKOFIEV

RICHARD WAGNER AND HIS WORLD

AND HIS WORLD

Franz Liszt AND HIS WORLD

EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER H. GIBBS

EDWARD ELGAR

Edited by Simon Morrison

AND HIS WORLD

AND DANA GOOLEY

Edited by Thomas S. Grey

Edited by Byron Adams

ALBAN

BERG AND HIS WORLD Edited by

Christopher Hailey

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SAINT-SAENS SAINT-SAENS ANDHIS HIS WORLD AND WORLD Editedby byJann JannPasler Pasler Edited

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STR AVINSKY AND HIS WORLD Edited by Tamara Levitz

composers and their worlds

bard music festival turns 25 From the very first, this was no ordinary festival. Here’s what the Wall Street Journal had to say about the inaugural affair, dedicated to Johannes Brahms, in 1990: “Unlike most summer festivals . . . Bard’s was not content to simply put on stellar performances of the featured composer and a few of his contemporaries. Mr. Botstein’s intention was, instead, to present Brahms in the light of the composer’s Vienna, so that we might hear Brahms differently.” Since then, the Bard Music Festival (BMF)—which this summer celebrates its 25th anniversary—has consistently refined and amplified Leon Botstein’s original intention. Beyond offering “stellar performances” of works by Brahms, Bartók, Copland, Stravinsky, Saint-Saëns, and its other illustrious subjects, the BMF takes pains (and pleasures) to place these composers in the context of their political, economic, social, and creative milieus. And no other summer music celebration offers its patrons a simultaneous festival—Bard SummerScape—that deeply immerses them in dance, theater, opera, film, and cabaret programs that are apposite to the lives and times of

symphonic concerts in the early years, exposing listeners to broiling humidity, percussive downpours, and opportunistic mosquitoes; today, attendees hear major orchestral works in the cool, acoustically superb confines of the 800-seat Sosnoff Theater, housed in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, a magnificent complex designed by Frank Gehry. (Most chamber concerts, along with lectures and panels, still take place in the cozy Olin Hall, with an occasional event making use of the Bertelsmann Campus Center or the László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building.) And the number of works performed, and musicians taking part, has vastly multiplied. “The festival has become way more elaborate and extensive,” says Irene Zedlacher, BMF executive director since 2003. “It is a much bigger operation, and we’ve become more ambitious in what we’re putting on stage.” The running of the “well-oiled machine” tended by Zedlacher, Associate Director Raissa St. Pierre ’87, and the staff includes the hiring of soloists and chamber players (about 250 musicians per festival).

speaking as a performer, it is so incredible to have all the pieces we are playing tied together in some way, as though the dna of a composer has been analyzed and the genetic ethnicities are being traced through music. the annual honorees and that further extend our appreciation and understanding of who they were and what they accomplished. “The BMF is unique in its thematic approach—focusing on the world of a single composer for the entire festival—and in that every concert is curated,” says Christopher Gibbs, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music and artistic codirector of the BMF since 2002. “There is also, as is appropriate for a festival connected with an academic institution, an extraordinary fusion of scholarship and musicianship.” Part of that fusion includes the annual publication, by Princeton University Press, of a hefty volume of essays, letters, reviews, and other documents pertaining to that summer’s featured composer. This series, which is edited by each season’s scholar in residence, has won two ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Awards and has been one of the “major forces in musical scholarship over the past quarter century,” according to Gibbs. Under the guidance of Gibbs and his fellow artistic directors— Botstein, president of the College, music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, and cofounder (with pianist Sarah Rothenberg, former Bard music faculty) of the festival; and Robert Martin, vice president for academic affairs and director of The Bard College Conservatory of Music—the BMF has come a long way since its nascent gala. Gone is the 600-seat vinyl tent that was the venue for

They also organize rehearsals, oversee food and lodging for visiting artists, edit and produce festival publications, secure rights for music—and “I still sometimes end up taking tickets at the door,” Zedlacher laughs. On occasion, she adds, she has also “picked up people at midnight at the train station.” Yet even in its greatly expanded state, the festival retains the intimacy and informality of its previous, smaller-scale incarnations. “I love that audience members get to interact informally with the performers and scholars over the course of the weekends,” says Gibbs. He notes that musicians and speakers are encouraged to attend events in which they are not actively participating, which in turn engenders conversations with audience members, who can discuss points raised in lectures or panel discussions. “The interaction of performers, scholars, and audiences is quite unusual,” says Gibbs. Walter Frisch, resident scholar for the Brahms festival as well as the Schoenberg festival in 1999, recalls a memorable instance of such interaction at one of the Schoenberg panel discussions. The panel was engaging with the “Aesthetics of Modernism” when a celebrated soprano, Bethany Beardslee, rose from the audience to share her experiences with Schoenberg’s vocal works. “What resulted was a wonderful discussion with her, the other panelists, and other members of the audience who contributed, all from different perspectives,” says

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Frisch, a music professor at Columbia University. “We all found it illuminating and stimulating in a way far beyond what it would have been had we had just the comments of the panelists, or just those of Beardslee, or just those of the audience. It was a moment that really did crystallize the Bard Music Festival experience.” For the musicians, too, the festival is a boon—not only for the reasons cited above, but also for the care and thoroughness that goes into the programming. “Speaking as a performer, it is so incredible to have all the pieces we are playing tied together in some way, as though the DNA of a composer has been analyzed and the genetic ethnicities are being traced through music,” says Laura Flax, a clarinetist and faculty member of The Bard College Conservatory of Music. Flax has performed at every festival save the one devoted to Mendelssohn, which happened to coincide with the birth of her twin daughters, Fanya ’13 and Amalie ’14, both of them accomplished musicians. (Both daughters, incidentally, have played with their mom at the festival—Amalie in Janácˇek’s Glagolitic Mass, and both Amalie and Fanya in Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll—as has the girls’ father, violinist Eric Wyrick.) Another plus for musicians is the challenge of learning pieces that deviate from the standard concert fare. A “rediscoveries” theme— the resurrection of unjustly neglected or seldom performed musical

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works—has been a hallmark of the festival since the beginning, and makes for uncommonly memorable concert experiences, both for the players and the audience. “The BMF is always musically challenging and intellectually stimulating,” says Flax. “The sheer number of new pieces we learn in the short two-week period is frightening and exciting. Leon has a rare gift of unearthing lost masterpieces and bringing them to light.” This shedding of light in obscure compositional crannies can sometimes result in a wider revival of the lost works. “One of our great satisfactions is seeing music we ‘rediscovered’ enter a broader concert life, as performers fall in love with a work and play it elsewhere,” says Gibbs. For instance, he and Zedlacher cite the three young women of the award-winning Claremont Trio, who learned Viteˇ zslav Novák’s Piano Trio in D Minor for the BMF’s Janácˇek celebration and subsequently played it at Carnegie Hall. Botstein has often referred to the BMF as “Bard’s football team,” and it’s a surprisingly apt analogy. A perennially excellent football team is a source of pride to many colleges and universities; it’s the nonacademic face they present to the public, and something that the college community “roots for,” year in and year out. As the BMF has demonstrated, a perennially excellent music festival can serve the same function.

Camille Saint-Saëns’ IgorHenry Stravinsky’s VIII, SummerScape Perséphone, 2012. 2013. photo Cory Weaver

One of the festival’s most vocal cheerleaders is the BMF Junior Committee. Created in 2009 by Katherine Burstein ’09 and BMF board member Michelle Clayman, its goal is to encourage a new generation of Bardians and other potential young audiences to attend and support the Bard Music Festival. “We recognize the importance of bringing first-rate classical music to a younger audience, and relish the intellectual stimulation of historical context that the BMF provides,” says Alysha Glenn ’09. Each of the 32 members of the BMF Junior Committee commits to supporting the festival; the group receives special invitations and discounts to attend performances and events in Annandale and New York City. Alumni/ae who are interested in joining the BMF Junior Committee should contact bmf@bard.edu. A gala to celebrate the festival’s milestone anniversary took place on April 9 at James Burden Mansion in Manhattan.

Bard Music Festival Composers Here is a comprehensive, chronological list of the composers whose worlds have been explored by the Bard Music Festival since its inception, along with each year’s scholar in residence and current affiliation. 1990 Johannes Brahms Walter Frisch, Columbia University 1991 Felix Mendelssohn R. Larry Todd, Duke University 1992 Richard Strauss Bryan Gilliam, Duke University 1993 Antonín Dvorˇák Michael Beckerman, New York University 1994 Robert Schumann R. Larry Todd, Duke University 1995 Béla Bartók Peter Laki, Bard College 1996 Charles Ives J. Peter Burkholder, Indiana University 1997 Joseph Haydn Elaine Sisman, Columbia University 1998 Pyotr Tchaikovsky Leslie Kearney, independent scholar 1999 Arnold Schoenberg Walter Frisch, Columbia University 2000 Ludwig van Beethoven Scott Burnham, Princeton University, and Michael P. Steinberg, Brown University

The quarter-century mark finds the Bard Music Festival still evolving, still expanding, and still retaining its original mandate to rediscover great composers and their works. The latest acknowledgment of its impressive achievement has come from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which approved a grant of $2 million to support the BMF. Half the money goes to the nuts-and-bolts operations of the festival, to be used over 51 months; the other half will build the endowment, to be matched two to one over the same period. This summer’s 25th Bard Music Festival explores Franz Schubert and his world, offering works by the great Viennese composer and his contemporaries. In keeping with BMF tradition, a neglected opera by one of those contemporaries—Carl Maria von Weber—will be performed at SummerScape: Euryanthe, a darkly gothic work based on a 13th-century French romance.

2001 Claude Debussy Jane F. Fulcher, Indiana University 2002 Gustav Mahler Karen Painter, University of Minnesota 2003 Leoš Janácˇek Michael Beckerman, New York University 2004 Dmitrii Shostakovich Laurel E. Fay, independent scholar 2005 Aaron Copland Carol J. Oja, Harvard University, and Judith Tick, Northeastern University 2006 Franz Liszt Christopher H. Gibbs, Bard College, and Dana Gooley, Brown University 2007 Edward Elgar Byron Adams, University of California, Riverside 2008 Sergey Prokofiev Simon Morrison, Princeton University 2009 Richard Wagner Thomas S. Grey, Stanford University 2010 Alban Berg Christopher Hailey, Franz Schreker Foundation 2011 Jean Sibelius Daniel M. Grimley, St. Aldate’s, Oxford University 2012 Camille Saint-Saëns Jann Pasler, University of California, San Diego 2013 Igor Stravinsky Tamara Levitz, University of California, Los Angeles 2014 Franz Schubert Christopher H. Gibbs, Bard College, and Morten Solvik, IES Abroad Vienna

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nick jones ’01

coloring the world orange by Ann Forbes Cooper

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Nick Jones ’01. photo Kevin Duffy Photography

In June, the new season of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black—one of the most eagerly anticipated returning shows on TV—will be released in its entirety, causing the equivalent of an intellectual endorphin rush to its millions of devotees. Whatever trials and tribulations Piper, Red, Taystee, Crazy Eyes, Pennsatucky, and the other inmates and staff of the fictional women’s minimum security prison in Rockland County encounter this season, the odds are that writer Nick Jones ’01 will have had a hand in many of them. Jones (who wrote two complete episodes in each season and contributed to the rest) is creating, along with his fellow scribes, some of the most entertaining, boundarybreaking, and original content on television today. To anyone living under a rock, Netflix’s addictive prison comedy/drama has critics raving and fans salivating, and is helping popularize the concept of binge viewing. Created by Jenji Kohan (who created Showtime’s Weeds), the series is based on the memoir of former felon Piper Kerman. Dramatic, poignant, funny, and shocking by turns, this cult hit eschews clichés, caricatures, and conventions. It focuses on a rogue’s gallery of characters not normally served up for mass consumption—many nonwhite, uneducated, and impoverished. The dramatis personae include ex-addicts, lesbians, religious zealots, and sadistic guards, as well as a transsexual, and provide an effective contrast to Taylor Schilling’s WASP-y, college-educated protagonist. And while the series is inspired by Kerman’s eponymous memoir, it features new plots that focus on the backstories of individual characters—brought to onscreen life by the creative penmanship of the series’ writers. Jones is one of only two men on a seven-person writing team. In Hollywood, where male writers predominate, this is an anomaly; as is how Jones himself—white; middle class; from Anchorage, Alaska; and a product of Bard, a liberal arts college—got the job. “I’d been hoping to work in TV for some time,” he says. “I loved Jenji’s sense of humor. But it wasn’t the show I imagined myself ideal for, because it doesn’t draw from my personal experience. On the other hand, I’ve never written from life. I write stories I find interesting.” His agent had sent Kohan a copy of Jones’s play The Coward, a comedy set in 18th-century England about a young man who challenges another to a pistol duel, then hires a common criminal to replace him, with unexpected consequences. “The Coward’s not about prison or women,” says Jones. “But Jenji looks for someone with a sense of humor.” The play, coupled with an HBO TV pilot script, got him in the door. “She liked The Coward and I think I had a good interview,” he says. “Every interview in which I say too much and reveal strange, inappropriate things are the ones that go best.” In March 2012 he began his dream job. Kohan wrote the Orange pilot, which served as a template. Research, prison visits, and talks with author Kerman, as well as former prisoners, followed. Jones also reached out to Max Kenner ’01, executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative. “We needed more stories than are in Piper’s memoir,” says Jones. “At the season’s beginning we map out a big arc. After outlining a few episodes, Jenji assigns them to different writers. The others give comments on an individual’s script. There’s lots of revision.”

Jones’s interest in theater began at Bard where, while he majored in literature, he also staged plays in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. JoAnne Akalaitis, Wallace Benjamin Flint and L. May Hawver Flint Professor of Drama (now emerita), even let him direct a play in the Theater Program. Why Bard? “Coming from Alaska, I liked the East Coast,” he says. “Bard was the only college I visited. . . and I thought, ‘This is great.’ Bard so strenuously advocates for individualism that it made me aspire to stand out from the crowd. It gave me the freedom and tools to cultivate my own voice.” After graduation, he moved to New York City and discovered puppets. At Bard his roommate, Raja Azar ’00, had worked with Jones on productions, creating the music. In the city, they volunteered with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (a staple of SummerScape’s Spiegeltent). “I wanted a variety act I could call my own, and puppets seemed like a good idea,” says Jones. Together, he and Azar created Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, a puppet rock musical about pirates. “It had the narrative storytelling that I loved about theater, but that I could do without all the production,” he says. “I wanted a lifestyle that was like a rock band’s.” The musical also included Keith Fredrickson ’00 and Dan Kutcher ’01; it debuted at Ars Nova, a nonprofit, off-Broadway theater in New York City, to critical acclaim. Jones also became playwright-in-residence at the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference, and won a Best of New York 2008 award (L Magazine and Gothamist) for Jollyship. Along the way Jones wrote other plays, including The Wundelsteipen; Little Building, and The Sporting Life. But it was The Coward that got him accepted into Juilliard in 2009. The Coward, originally produced at Lincoln Center/LCT3, where it won two Lucille Lortel Awards, is being made into a movie, with Big Beach Films (Little Miss Sunshine). Jones contributed to the screenplay and hopes to be on set when they shoot in the fall. In the two-month hiatus between seasons of Orange (in which Alysia Reiner, granddaughter of Arnold Davis ’44, plays assistant warden Natalie Figueroa), Jones worked on his own projects. These included the play Trevor, a black comedy about a former showbiz chimpanzee who is kept as a pet and is dealing with postfame life. (The story was inspired by a real-life chimp who attacked a friend of its owner.) The play premiered in New York City to rave reviews (the New York Times called it “sly,” “witty,” and “taut”) and moved to Chicago in October with similar success. When writing plays, says Jones, you create a world entirely out of words. “But TV is more visual,” he says. “Some things look paltry on the page, but can be massive when you actualize them. Training my visual imagination has been one of the greatest challenges.” Any advice to current Bardians wishing to write for TV? “My path has been so strange, it’s not one anyone can follow. The best lesson I’d share is my Jollyship experience. I found something uniquely mine, and worked to make it the maximum expression of itself that I could. I developed my voice and style, and came to know myself in a way that is invaluable. That’s what a voice is: a collection of tastes that are reflected on the page.”

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gia coppola ’09

filmmaking’s next generation by William Stavru ’87

During the past year, Gia Coppola ’09, somewhat reluctantly, has become a regular on the film festival circuit, with her feature film directorial and writing debut, Palo Alto, being screened—and lauded—at such prestigious venues as the Telluride, Venice, Toronto, and Tribeca film festivals. Coppola says, “Film festivals are scary to me, but if the cast and crew are with me, then they can be fun. We’re able to celebrate the work.” Based on the eponymous collection of stories by James Franco (Scribner’s, 2010), who also stars in the film, Palo Alto details the troubled lives of a group of high school students in Palo Alto, California, exploring the teenagers’ characters and how their exploits and relationships become searches for meaning. Coppola, who admits that her own high school years were neither fun nor productive, says she felt a kinship to the characters and was drawn to the dialogue and sense of teen malaise conveyed in the book. “In 2010, I met James Franco and we started talking about photography and about his book. I read it and thought the language and mood were spot on for the world he was creating, so we decided to turn it into a film,” she says. In the book, myriad characters wander in and out of interlinked stories, so Coppola had a challenge in adapting the collection. “I had to combine characters and focus on the meatier stories, letting others go. James gave me some good advice along the way,” she says. “One of my biggest surprises in writing the screenplay—aside from discovering how lonely and draining writing can be—is that the film goes through several filtrations until it becomes something very different 10 gia coppola ’09

than what you’ve started with. Over time, the script almost starts to tell you what it needs to be.” Coppola and her small crew started filming on Halloween 2012 in Woodland Hills and other neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. She says, “The shoot was low-budget and very familial; the boys [the crew] lived in my mom’s house and I often cooked dinner for them.” They wrapped in 30 days. With the surname Coppola, one can expect that Gia is genetically predisposed to a life behind a camera lens. She is matter of fact when discussing her large, dynastic Hollywood family. Sticking to a short list of who’s who: Her grandfather is director/writer/wine producer/ hotelier Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now); her aunt is director/writer Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides); her cousins are accomplished actors Nicholas Cage and Jason Schwartzman. She appreciates the many talents of each, especially her aunt and grandfather. “I love my grandfather’s work— I just rewatched The Conversation—and Sofia’s films,” she says. Although she was determined to maintain a healthy distance from her family in order to find her own voice as a writer and a filmmaker, she did seek guidance regarding the business aspects of filmmaking. “My grandpa gave me some advice in dealing with industry executives and the money people—it’s incredibly hard to find financing, and even harder to figure out distribution. Sofia, as a young, softspoken woman director, had dealt with the same issues I was facing. Even though I know I have great people to turn to, I didn’t want my

family’s ideas to infiltrate my work too much or rely too heavily on those connections.” Coppola maintains that, regardless of the amount of help, nothing could have equipped her for directing her first project. “There’s no way you can be prepared for your first film; you just feel like a teenager going through very teenage insecurity,” she says. “My grandpa likes to say that directing is all about problem solving and that you need to learn to love anxiety. That’s true.” Postproduction brought the young filmmaker other important teachable moments. Coppola says, “I learned the most in the editing room. When you’re shooting, you work from a script and let the film take its course. But I didn’t fully understand how important editing is and how it can dramatically change the look and tone of the film.” One thing Coppola did understand before directing her film is how to use a camera, which she learned as a photography major at Bard. She chose the College in order to study with Stephen Shore, Susan Weber Professor in the Arts and director of Bard’s Photography Program. “I was a fan of Stephen’s work, so I studied photography,” she says, adding that she also enjoyed working with Gregory Moynahan and Robert Culp, both associate professors of history, who taught “an interesting class on revolutions.” Shore agreed to advise Coppola; her Senior Project was an exhibition of street and diaristic photography. “I liked the idea that Bard was close to New York City, but I could have a rural college experience,” she says. “I also liked that Bard is a liberal arts college but one that has a very creative environment.” Gia Coppola ’09. photo ©2013 Fabrizio Maltese/Contour/Getty Images

After graduation she tried bartending (“I liked making gin martinis, served cold, cold, cold!”) and booked work as a fashion photographer. “I was just trying to find work that inspired me. Then I shot behind the scenes on the set of Twixt, my grandfather’s film that came out in 2011. That’s where I learned a lot about how a movie is made.” Variety said Palo Alto “brings a fresh humanity” to the topic of disaffected modern youth: “Coppola’s adaptation balances the tired sensationalism of kids behaving badly with a welcome dose of sympathy. . . . Coppola cycles through a wide range of emotions, from humor to horror, as these not-quite-kids, not-quite-adults pick fights, deface public property and seek easy gratification . . . [Palo Alto] boasts a clear and confident voice of its own, and it will be exciting to see where the young Coppola goes from here.” With her first feature film complete, Coppola is enjoying having more down time, which she spends reading books (she was in the middle of John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra at the time of this interview) and considering future projects. “I’m not sure what I will do next,” she says. “I have some original ideas, but I don’t know if they will go anywhere. A dream project would be to adapt a story by Raymond Chandler. It would be fun to modernize an old mystery the way [director Robert] Altman did with The Long Goodbye.” Palo Alto is set for wide release in June, following a limited release in Los Angeles and New York.

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military and civilian implications

the debate over drones by Dan Gettinger ’13 and Arthur Holland Michel ’13

As seniors, Arthur Holland Michel ’13 and Dan Gettinger ’13 created the Center for the Study of the Drone, an interdisciplinary research and arts project based at Bard. The idea was to bring together academics from a variety of disciplines to discuss, study, and learn about unmanned and autonomous systems technology and its implications for warfare, law enforcement, and other civilian applications. Their project has evolved to include seminars, lectures, debates, roundtable discussions at Bard and in New York City, a blog (http://dronecenter.bard.edu), and a weekly news roundup that Thomas Keenan, associate professor of comparative literature and director of Bard’s Human Rights Project, calls “one of the most authoritative sources anywhere for news about drones of all sorts.” Gettinger’s interest in drones began in his sophomore year, when he took a seminar taught by Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities. Gettinger was intrigued by Thucydides’s account of the Peloponnesian War and how choices in weapons platforms affected the strategies of the ancient city-states. His Senior Project explored drones and the changing nature of modern warfare. Holland Michel, a double major in historical studies and written arts, broached the idea of a center for studying drones to Gettinger. In fall 2012, the two assembled a faculty team and helped design a course on drones that met with overwhelming student response, and the center took flight.

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At the time we first talked about creating the Center for the Study of the Drone, U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen were peaking. Al Jazeera and the New York Times were regularly running stories about these operations, which the CIA was refusing to acknowledge. Drones hadn’t become a media sensation yet, but a public debate on the issue had begun. Advocates claimed that drones were more precise, surgical, and humane than the alternatives, while human rights activists decried the loss of civilian life, the psychological trauma of living under drones, and the threat that drones pose to privacy. The debate seemed inarticulate, misinformed, and immobilized by its own narrowness. This, we soon figured out, was no accident. Nobody really understood the drone—nobody really even knew what a drone was. Defining the word “drone” is an exceedingly complex challenge. In the public imagination, a drone is a weaponized, unmanned aircraft that watches, and engages, members of extremist organizations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and the Horn of Africa. But from a technological perspective, this definition is too narrow. An unmanned submarine is technically a drone, too. One of our goals was to help broaden the public definition of drones to include all kinds of unmanned vehicles, be they airborne, land borne, or aquatic. As we understand it, a drone is a machine that uses sensors to collect information about its environment, and then uses actuators to either

Dan Gettinger ’13 (left) and Arthur Holland Michel ’13, holding a student-built drone. photo Don Hamerman

manipulate its own location and orientation in that environment or manipulate the environment itself. Some drones require a human controller to be in the loop; others can respond to their environment autonomously, according to their programming. All drones, no matter their shape or size, are irresistible, fascinating, uncanny, and somewhat terrifying; we want to find out why, and how, the combination of appeal and fear influences the public conversation. This is becoming increasingly important, as drones are not just for foreign operations anymore. In 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration plans to create licensing procedures and air traffic rules for unmanned aerial vehicles in United States airspace. Unmanned technology is set to become an enormous industry, with some insider optimists predicting that the sector could be worth up to $400 billion in the next few years. More realistic estimates range between $13 billion and $85 billion. Whatever the dollar figure, demand for drones is expected to be extremely high. A farmer who previously operated a $3 million helicopter to survey his crops for $6,000 an hour will be able to run a $20,000 multirotor drone for a few hundred dollars per day (agriculture is expected to account for 80 percent of domestic acquisitions). Police departments will turn to unmanned aerial vehicles as a cheap and effective alternative to manned helicopters. NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) already fly military hand-medown drones to survey animal migratory patterns and weather changes. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection bureau maintains a fleet of drones, which it lends to police departments, the FBI, and U.S. Department of Justice agencies. The unmanned vehicle industry is growing despite the fact that the use of drones by law enforcement agencies is controversial. In this era of pervasive surveillance, the idea of government agencies acquiring yet another highly capable surveillance platform to monitor the domestic population is unpopular. Fears of an era of unbounded aerial surveillance have prompted state and local legislatures across the nation to pass bills that curtail aerial surveillance by both private citizens and government organizations. But drone technology, like the Internet, has developed far more quickly than the policies that are meant to regulate it. Driven by the promise of high profits, the industry is developing ever more sophisticated drones, from solar-powered drones that can remain airborne for up to five years to drones the size of insects. Each new drone is accompanied by a set of new ethical questions and policy challenges. When Amazon announced in December that the company was developing a system for drones to deliver packages under five pounds to Amazon customers in 30 minutes, the prospect of large-scale domestic drone use departed from the realm of hobbyists and futurists and entered mainstream society. By putting its weight behind the controversial idea of domestic drones, Amazon thrust the drone debate into high gear, and highlighted the need for an informed policy response. Crucially, the Amazon announcement put pressure on the FAA to develop a domestic drone integration plan—an extremely complex task. The announcement mattered because it will require

society to develop a framework for understanding the implications of unmanned technology beyond the current limited scope of the drone debate. What remains to be seen is whether Amazon’s drone delivery system will actually work in time for the prospective 2015 launch date. Critics note a long list of safety concerns. For example, many believe that Amazon drones can’t possibly work in crowded urban environments. Nevertheless, Amazon’s backing could help the technology and regulatory communities resolve lingering safety and privacy concerns. The question seems to be “when will this happen?” rather than “will this ever happen?” This past fall, Keith O’Hara, assistant professor of computer science, taught (De-)Coding the Drone. The four-credit class, which we designed with Professor O’Hara, combines hands-on training in unmanned systems programming with a humanities-based reading list and guest speakers from philosophy, the arts, history, and political science. The fall also saw a formal debate on drones (“Resolved: Drones Do More Good Than Harm”) with Bard students, cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and faculty from both institutions. In a bid to help the public organize the mass of information and media buzz surrounding this subject, we created the Weekly Roundup, a short, accessible list of the latest news, analysis, commentary, art, and tech from the drone world. Each week, the roundup goes out to an expanding community of interested citizens, researchers, pilots, artists, journalists, and writers. The blog features news analysis, portfolios, and interviews, while the website is a platform for historical, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives on current events. The interviews on the website attempt to bring unheard voices into the conversation about drones. In late fall, for example, we interviewed Natalie Jeremijenko, an artist and engineer who uses unmanned technology to create environmental solutions, and is considered a leading voice on the intersection of art, environmentalism, and technology. In 1997 she created the first-ever piece of “drone art,” flying a small, camera-equipped drone over large tech campuses in Silicon Valley. The center’s efforts have been praised by a number of influential people and organizations. When Dan wrote about how the German Pirate Party (a socially liberal party favoring Internet freedom and political transparency, among other issues) flew a drone toward German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a campaign rally, the story was distributed widely among the Pirate Party and its supporters. Our work has been quoted by Bloomberg News, and featured in Slate, USA Today, Wired, Artforum, and elsewhere. In January and February, we cosponsored two panel discussions at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. We are also providing research for the filmmaker Carl Colby’s forthcoming feature documentary on domestic weaponized drone use. Initiatives to expand the center’s programs include concepts for tech literacy programs at Bard’s partner institutions, including the Bard High School Early Colleges, and development of an online archive for research about drones. We are confident that, through this collective enterprise, the public will be better equipped to face the social, economic, ethical, and political challenges that lie ahead.

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joan tower turns 75

fanfare for an uncommon composer by Mikhail Horowitz

Some composers have great halls consecrated to them; others lend their names to annual festivals or concert series, or have their features replicated by bronze statuary in their native cities. But it’s probably safe to say that only one great composer has ever had a tree dedicated to her. “I was given an honorary degree by Smith College last May, and the woman who hosted me is married to an arborist,” Joan Tower relates. “So it turns out he had a tree dedicated to me in Bryant Woods, Massachusetts”—a towering white pine, whose rugged image graced the poster for last fall’s annual concert presented by Tower, Bard’s Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts, and her colleague Blair McMillen, at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Like the tree that bears her name, Tower, now halfway through her seventh decade, remains vigorous and reaching skyward.

is in residence this year, in March. (The Albany Symphony is also recording Rapids and Strike Zones, the latter with Evelyn Glennie as percussionist.) In April, a “Tower + Bach” program was performed by the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble at Columbia University School of the Arts’ Miller Theatre. “Me and Bach is a great juxtaposition,” she laughs, “because I’m everything Bach isn’t.” When she first came to Annandale, the Music Program “was this little shack next to Bard Hall; we called it the ‘Motel-on-the-Hudson,’” Tower recalls. “The walls were not acoustically resistant; if you were teaching composition in one room, you’d be drowned out by instruments playing in the room next door.” Despite those primitive conditions, Bard was an “intensely creative milieu . . . the curriculum was open-ended; there wasn’t a recipe where you had to do this and regurgitate that. It took lots of energy to be in such an incredibly

even if you win prizes, they actually don’t do much. what’s much more important is that the music gets played. that means that musicians like it, and they’re picking it up, and that gives me a kind of inner fuel. Tower, who turned 75 last September, has taught at Bard since 1972. A gala concert celebrating her milestone birthday took place in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building performance hall. Musicians with whom she has bonded over the years—including McMillen, Kayo Iwama, Dawn Upshaw, Peter Wiley, and Steven Tenenbom, all fellow professors at Bard—gave spirited renditions of five of her works, including the string quartet White Water (2011), a thrilling piece that, according to one critic, “grabs you by the throat and commands your attention for approximately 20 minutes, and seemingly only a brief 20 minutes at that.” Her work continues to exert a formidable influence in the world of contemporary music, and, even more happily, continues to be embraced by musicians and actively played. Some recent highlights were the premiere of her Bassoon Concerto, by Peter Kolkay and the South Carolina Philharmonic, in October; performances of Stroke, written for her brother, a stroke victim whose care Tower manages, by the Nashville Symphony in November and the American Symphony Orchestra in February; and a rendition of Rapids by McMillen and the Albany Symphony Orchestra, with whom Tower 14 joan tower turns 75

exploratory and curious environment—like anything stimulating, it was exhausting,” she says. Today, that “intensely creative milieu” remains, but the infrastructure housing it is a horse of a different timbre. “Now we have two big buildings devoted to music, and the Fisher Center, and a firstrate student orchestra,” she says. “All the disciplines—classical, jazz, electronic music, choral singing—have expanded, and the level of musical activity at the College is quite extraordinary. If I were a high school music student, I’d come here—immediately!” The person to thank for this, she adds, is Leon Botstein, president of the College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra. “This is all due to his vision, and his talent for getting people to join him and allow his vision to happen.” If one spends any time in Tower’s company, sooner or later (and usually sooner) she will bring up her dedication to coaxing and cajoling musicians to write music. “I have this thing of performers being composers and composers being performers,” she says. “I’m constantly trying to bring us back together again.” She notes, wryly, that our society has become “so performer-oriented,” young musicians

From left: Joan Tower, Graduate Vocal Arts Program (VAP) Associate Director Kayo Iwama, and VAP Artistic Director Dawn Upshaw atTower’s 75th birthday celebration

have “become like Olympic skiers” in terms of their technical training, often at the expense of actually knowing what they’re playing. Hence, she has developed a special composition-for-performers course at The Bard College Conservatory of Music. If her budding virtuosos protest that writing music is too difficult, she tells them, “Welcome to being a composer! This will teach you something about the page you play. You got musical instincts? Then use ’em!” Tower is widely known for her fierce advocacy of living composers; she never tires of reminding program directors in the “dead composer world” that the “Three B’s,” “The Mighty Five,” and others have their living counterparts whose work deserves a hearing. Among the contemporary composers she has introduced to Bard audiences in recent years are Louis Andriessen, Conor Brown, Osvaldo Golijov, David Lang, György Ligeti, Paul Schoenfield, Yiwen Shen, and Karen Tanaka, along with many student composers at the Bard Conservatory and in the College’s Music Program. As an ardent, robust, living composer herself, Tower has not wanted for recognition. To enumerate her many prizes and awards would swell this article to several thousand more words, but a small sampling includes the Grawemeyer Award in Composition (1990; the first time it was given to a woman); induction into the American photo Karl Rabe

Academy of Arts and Letters (1998) and the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University (2004); a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center (2008); and her selection as the first composer chosen for the Ford Made in America commissioning program (2005). The latter resulted in the creation of her large-hearted magnum opus, Made in America, which was subsequently played by 65 orchestras, great and small, across the country, and whose recording on the Naxos label won three Grammy Awards. And yet, with all these achievements, Joan Tower remains resolutely down-to-earth. She is quoted in The Muse That Sings, an anthology of interviews with contemporary composers, saying: “Humility is important. Even if you win prizes, they actually don’t do much. . . . They may go into a résumé or a book, and somebody may be impressed. But what’s much more important is that the music gets played. That means that musicians like it, and they’re picking it up, and that gives me a kind of inner fuel. Prizes do not contain that fuel.” Teaching, too, contains that fuel for Tower. “I don’t have any kids of my own, so my students are like my kids,” she says. “Many of them have gone on to a life in music, which is incredibly nourishing to me. That gives me more satisfaction than winning a big award.” fanfare for an uncommon composer 15

student explorations

a summer education by Debby Mayer

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Left to right: Maximillian Brown ’14, Maya Osborne ’14, Rory Mondshein ’14, Benjamin Powers ’14, Carmen Rodriguez ’14. photo Don Hamerman

The summer months stretch before Bard students as a time to explore options that augment the academic year. Undergraduates might conduct an internship, or travel. They might work in a chosen field to discover whether they want to make it their life. Here is a look at five Bardians who spent last summer pursuing a variety of academic passions, from poetry to biostatistics, and returned to Bard with fresh perspectives.

Carmen Rodriguez: BEST Summer Program Carmen Rodriguez ’14, a Bard Educational Opportunity Program scholar, was born in Constanza, Dominican Republic, and moved to the United States in 2006. She now lives in Washington Heights, a northern section of New York City. She has always been interested in health care and medicine. With those interests in mind, she took a course in statistics and “liked it a lot,” she says. She’s majoring in mathematics and completing the requirements for a biomedical engineering program that Bard conducts in affiliation with Columbia University. Melding her academic interests, Rodriguez was eager to attend the Biostatistics Enrichment Summer Training (BEST) Diversity Program at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. BEST was established in 2008 with the goal of expanding and diversifying the workforce in the behavioral and biomedical sciences. The program introduces undergraduates from underrepresented populations to biostatistics (the development and application of statistical techniques to scientific research in health-related fields) and cardiovascular and pulmonary disease research. Each summer 10 to 15 students join the Department of Biostatistics at Mailman for eight weeks of research, training, academic and career planning, and social activities around New York City. Participants receive housing and a stipend; some additional expenses are also covered. Rodriguez’s internship mentor was Parisa Tehranifar, a professor of epidemiology who was researching breast cancer. “She let me choose my own research,” says Rodriguez, who sought to determine if there was a relationship between body mass index (a predictor of mammographic density, which is a strong risk factor for breast cancer) and the level of acculturation in the patient. The patients were for the most part Hispanic women, and acculturation was measured by such factors as length of time they had lived in the United States, their generation in their family, and their place of birth. “In order to study this relationship, I used various statistical analysis techniques and learned a new programming language,” says Rodriguez. The BEST internship offers other educational facets besides research. Rodriguez took courses in biostatistics and statistical computing with SAS software and she attended free Kaplan Test Prep classes in preparation for the Graduate Record Exams. The BEST interns also attended a weekly seminar in which researchers from different departments at Mailman talked about their work. These seminars included information sessions about applying for Mailman’s master’s degree program in public health and a resume and interviews

workshop. Interns lived at International House on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where Rodriguez met Ph.D. and master’s degree students. Social life included a Broadway show and a Yankees game. “Overall, it was a great experience,” she says. Back at Bard, Rodriguez is at work on her Senior Project, for which she is combining a medical problem and mathematics, and taking courses in organic chemistry and physics. In addition to serving as a BEOP peer mentor, she is a leader of the Latin American Students Organization. A dancer, she belongs to the Bard Hip-Hop Club and coheads the Latin Dance Club. Looking back on her internship, she says, “It was more than I expected. I met so many people, and learned about ongoing research in cardiology, tuberculosis, diabetes” and more.

Maya Osborne: “The Point Is the Poetry” Slam—the competition of spoken word poetry—is distinctly American, developed in the United States from the spoken word jazz tradition, says Maya Osborne ’14. But slam is also “huge in South Africa and Australia,” she says. Last fall Osborne submitted a project proposal for a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to “enter, work with, and compare slam poetry communities and competitions around the world,” looking at slam in those two nations as well as in Sweden and Canada. Although she did not win the prestigious postgraduation travel award, she was a finalist in the campus selection process that forwards names to the Watson committee. A Brooklyn native, Osborne is a graduate of Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Manhattan. “I visited Bard and fell in love with the campus,” she says. “If there was ever an example of a kid finding the perfect school for herself, it’s me. Plus, I knew that I could take the train to New York City on weekends for poetry events.” Osborne, who “always loved storytelling as a small child,” wrote her first poem when she was 13, after reading Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman.” “I wrote it while trying to cope with being the fat girl and in love in middle school,” says Osborne. “It’s a bodyimage poem that is still relevant, and hilarious.” People who have heard it before at her poetry performances ask for it again, and she can recite it by heart. “I memorize all my poems,” she says, “which is important for a performance poet.” What’s also important is practice, practice, practice—which Osborne did last summer at the Brave New Voices slam competition in Chicago. Brave New Voices is a growing network of more than 70 spoken-word organizations, dedicated to establishing places where young people from across the country are challenged to develop the power of their voices and present their creations. This is the largest youth slam in the world, Osborne says, held annually in a different city each year in early August: “the pinnacle of slam for poets under 20” (she will graduate Bard at 20, earning her degree in three years, after attending BHSEC). Every year, teams of six poets from “nearly every major city” in the United States, as well as South Africa, England, and Bermuda, among other nations, create original performance

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poems on topics of identity, social justice, and political issues. The competition brings the teams together to “slam” their spoken poems against each other. “Being a part of this team and this competition is like being a soccer player on a Division I team,” says Osborne. Her group trained for four months; “it was the most emotionally and at times physically challenging thing I’ve ever done,” she says. Two peer coaches and one head coach led them through the process. Osborne’s team came in third out of the dozens of teams competing, which was “amazing,” says Osborne. After three rounds, the top four teams performed their poems at the Chicago Theatre in front of the entire festival and Chicago residents: some two thousand people. The prize? “That was the award: sharing our stories and our hard work of training” in front of the crowd, says Osborne. “We have this expression/chant in slam: ‘The point is not the points—the point is the poetry.’” Osborne’s Senior Project is a collection of poems. She is a literature major, with a concentration in Africana studies. She runs Thursday Night Live, an open mic night with guest artists including, each semester, a few slam poets. She founded and ran Bard Slam, a slam poetry club. “We perform on campus and write together,” she says. “I guess you could say I’ve brought poetry into every aspect of my life.”

Maximillian Brown: A Better Idea “For me, the undergraduate education is about figuring out what, among so many options, I could do with my time,” says Max Brown ’14, a biology major from New York City. He chose Bard because he sensed that the College cared “about the student and intellectual growth.” This was apparent, he says, in the “generous financial aid” he was offered, “coupled with the genuine freedom to study whatever I wanted.” Brown decided to spend the summer of 2013 doing research, following his participation in the prestigious Bard-Rockefeller Semester in Science during the spring. “I wanted to gain more lab experience, and to try my hand at research that was more biochemically based, as opposed to genetics based. I wanted to see if full-time research was the right fit for me, and overall, I wanted to experience and observe the lifestyles of working scientists.” With those goals in mind, Brown spent several weeks, funded by the National Science Foundation, at the Staley Lab, at the University of Chicago. Jonathan P. Staley is the principal investigator at the lab in which, according to its website, researchers conduct genetic and biochemical studies of the spliceosome (a complex of specialized RNA and proteins) using yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). RNA, on which Brown’s project focused, “is sort of like DNA but less stable,” he explains. “In order to make an essential protein, an organism needs to take information from DNA, which is done via an intermediate called RNA. When DNA first becomes RNA, a lot of the code copied is useless information that needs to be removed. That removal is called gene splicing.” Brown’s summer project entailed

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mutating little bits of small splicing fragments of RNA to examine the impact the mutations had on the overall process of gene splicing. Brown’s Senior Project (which he is conducting with Philip Johns, visiting assistant professor of biology), though not directly related to gene splicing, is about “protein evolution on sex chromosomes in some very interesting and exotic species of flies,” he says. The data they used came from flies Johns and Brown collected on a trip to Southeast Asia in summer 2011. Looking back on his internship, Brown says, “I found the work demanding.” And the experience gave him “a better idea” of what he might want to do in the future. Gene splicing isn’t as competitive as the fields of cancer or stem cell research, he says, but his research “was sufficiently ‘hot’ to make me feel constantly that what I was doing wasn’t even remotely my own—it belonged to a community. And while that social nature is one of the great things about science, it also means that whatever you put out there has to hold up.” The course Brown took in biochemistry, he says, also gave him “a better vocabulary for communicating with scientists and understanding different types of research.”

Rory Mondshein: Model UN as Second Nature “I had always wanted to be part of Model UN because I heard that it was a great activity for political junkies who love to role-play, which is how I describe myself,” says Rory Mondshein ’14, a political studies major with a concentration in social policy. Mondshein’s high school in New York City could not afford to field a Model UN team, however, so Bard appealed to her for its Model UN program as well as for its curriculum and small classes. When Mondshein hesitated to join, feeling she lacked the experience of other team members, Vice President and Dean for International Affairs and Civic Engagement Jonathan Becker, her academic adviser and adviser to the Model UN team, encouraged her. “After a while,” she says, “I created a family on the team and Model UN became second nature to me.” As a junior, Mondshein was president of Bard’s Model UN team in what began as a tough year, with a shortage of members and funding. Mondshein recruited new members and worked with them individually to create true team spirit. She made wise spending decisions, and the team went on to one success after another, winning team awards at Yale, Northeastern, McGill, and West Point and becoming one of the top 50 teams in the United States. They did so well that Mondshein received attention for her leadership skills, from other institutions and from bestdelegate.com. Best Delegate, she explains, is the premier source for all things Model UN: not only do they give tips and bestow rankings, but they also develop “some of the best Model UN programs in the world,” says Mondshein. “Being recognized by them is like winning the jackpot.” (See “Rory the Revolutionary: A Look Inside the Bard Model UN Team’s Ascendance to Success” on BestDelegate.com.) Happily for Mondshein, Best Delegate needed help for a project in South Korea. Along with the World Federation of the United

Nations Associations, Best Delegate organized a youth camp in Suwon to teach debate and Model UN to children in elementary through high school. They were looking for teachers; Mondsheim applied and was accepted. “I was surprised when I was accepted,” she says, “and even more surprised that my mother actually let me go.” Not until her plane landed in Seoul did Mondshein realize that she was alone in a foreign country. But, she says, she learned that “I was a lot stronger than I ever thought I was.” Trainers were assigned to work personally with six students. Mornings were spent in lectures or workshops, afternoons in practice and feedback. Mondshein worked with high school–level students and worried about her responsibility, about unintentionally insulting students by not knowing their language, and about using the UN’s Rules of Procedure, with which she was unfamiliar. But she managed it all. “I worked with some of the smartest and most genuine people I have ever met, who made me feel at home,” she says. “I was also fortunate to have motivated students, who made the experience wonderful. I still keep in touch with all of them.” Mondshein’s opportunities continued after the program. In August she participated in a four-day workshop sponsored by the UN Department of Public Information at UN headquarters in New York City. “I shared my experiences with leaders from all around the world and made a speech in front of UN officials. I was gaining a foothold in the Model UN community,” she says. As a senior, Mondshein continues with the Bard Model UN team, but not in a leadership role. At the Model Arab League, hosted by Northeastern University in November, she was part of the Bard team that successfully represented Iraq. Four Bard students received awards for their performance, including Mondshein. In addition to her Senior Project (on legislation to curtail bullying), she developed the Bard Student Liaison Initiative, which is designed to foster better relationships with the surrounding communities through dialogue and civic engagement. “I believe that active engagement is the key to fostering a better community,” she says.

Benjamin Powers: Making Connections Benjamin Powers ’14, who is pursuing a joint major in political studies and human rights, came to Bard from Atlanta on a Posse Scholarship. (The Posse Foundation sends groups of students to the same college to encourage diversity and mutual support [see Spring 2013 Bardian].) He chose Bard, he says, because it was the most academically rigorous college he saw. And “the academic aspect of Bard has been the most rewarding and enduring part of my time here,” he says. For seven weeks last summer Powers took part in an internship in public policy and international affairs at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Its mission is to empower and better address the needs of historically underserved communities. Called the Junior Summer Institute, it offers a rigorous program of course work designed to improve the analytical, quanti-

tative, and legal skills of participants in preparation for success in law school and at graduate programs in public policy and international affairs. Each summer the Institute admits about 30 undergraduates. The curriculum is divided into three areas of study: policy analysis (domestic and international), economics, and quantitative methods. Powers was one of 10 participants interested in pursuing joint degrees in public policy and law who were selected as University of California Public Policy and International Affairs (UCPPIA) Law Fellows. In addition to learning the fundamentals of policy analysis, Law Fellows are exposed to the topics and skills necessary for success in law school. Powers learned about the Junior Summer Institute through his Posse Scholarship and found it “an incredibly challenging and rewarding experience.” The curriculum “made me more articulate about policy, by exposing me to quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis that I had not understood previously.” But “the greatest thing about it was the diverse group of brilliant students that participated in the fellowship with me.” The internship came with a stipend, and travel costs to Berkeley were covered. Powers lived on the Berkeley campus, “a great area.” Attending daily master’s level classes in public policy, Powers says he spent a lot of time studying. “I did find time to hike the hills around Berkeley, celebrate gay pride in San Francisco, socialize with my cohort, and attend a reading that featured authors such as Junot Diaz.” There were also graduate school fairs and professional networking events. Powers is writing his Senior Project on the negative consequences of codifying international human rights law in the South African constitution and what this might mean for posttransitional nations going forward. Through the TLS (Trustee Leader Scholar) Program, he is head of Young Rhinebeck Youth Program: Life, Learning, and Language, which provides a local support network for immigrant children and their families. “As advocates, mentors, and tutors, we are in constant contact with the Hispanic community in the Hudson Valley, and we seek to raise awareness of immigration and education issues,” he says. “I was involved in this program before my fellowship, but it intersects with issues of education, race, and immigration in the policy realm in a way that I believe is important.” Reflecting on his experience, Powers says, “I am heavily interested in foreign affairs and international human rights law, but one thing that really stood out for me from this past summer was the fact that everything is interconnected, and social issues are affected by different policies in very different ways. If we hope to understand which policies should be undertaken, we must understand a plethora of areas well, in order to see the connections between aesthetically different problems.”

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nobel laureate robert grubbs

making chemistry green Robert Grubbs is determined to ensure that chemistry is used for products or processes that are useful, affordable, and sustainable. The Nobel laureate in chemistry should know: he has based his career on discovering and developing chemical compounds that possess all three applications. “You can have the greenest chemistry around, but if no one uses it, and if it’s not economically viable, it’s not going to work,” he said. “A big consumer survey showed that 12 to 18 percent of people said they would pay extra for green, but the majority would not. There should be an equal cost and quality between the green product and what it’s replacing.” Grubbs, who is Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology, spoke at Bard last fall in a lecture entitled “Green Chemistry: Examples from Catalysis.” He addressed a packed audience in Olin Hall to explain the principles behind the creation of chemical bonds and other reactions that result in improved insect-control methods, drugs to curb disease, and con-

Boissevain Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions, is an organic chemist whose discovery of a special group of catalysts has led to a wide variety of applications in medicine and industry. He received the 2005 Nobel Prize, along with Yves Chauvin and Richard Schrock, for work with catalysts used in the field of olefin metathesis. Metathesis (“transposition” or “changing places” in Greek) is an organic reaction in which chemists selectively strip out certain atoms in a compound and replace them with atoms that were previously part of another compound. The result is a custom-built molecule with specialized properties that can lead, for example, to better pharmaceuticals for the treatment of disease, or better electrical-conducting properties for specialized plastics—all of which Grubbs is working on within a company he founded, Materia, which aims to create greener and more cost-competitive processes and products. Prior to Grubbs’s work, metathesis was poorly understood. According to the Royal Swedish Academy’s Nobel citation, “Metathesis is an example

once you make a good catalyst, people around the world will find wonderful things to do with it. the key to development of a new reaction is making it easy for others to try. version of seed oils into fuels, among other uses. Grubbs also spent “many hours” during his two days at Bard with small groups of students, according to Swapan Jain, assistant professor of chemistry. “He discussed their careers and how to plan them, and about becoming a research scientist,” Jain said. “A lot of students were really inspired.’ “Green chemistry—now called sustainable chemistry—was not an area I started out to work in,” Grubbs said during his lecture. “I think of green chemistry as a chemist: you put something in, get your reaction, see what happens. I joke that I didn’t realize I was a green chemist until the Nobel committee told me I was a green chemist.” His work centers on catalysts: complex organic compounds with an ion, such as the metal ruthenium, at their core. Catalysts, which speed up a wide range of chemical reactions, leave very little waste—hence the “green chemistry” moniker. A 2011 Pike Research report concluded that green chemicals will save the industry $65.5 billion by 2020, by reducing or preventing waste, generating chemical substances with little or no toxicity, and increasing energy efficiency by using renewable feedstocks (raw materials) to produce chemicals and other materials. “We need new catalytic processes for the conversion of biomaterials into chemicals,” Grubbs said. “But here is the other big question: Is this really green and how green is it?” Grubbs, whose lecture and student meetings were sponsored by the College and a grant from the Dreyfus Foundation’s Jean Dreyfus

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of how important, basic science has been applied for the benefit of man, society, and the environment.” Olefins are hydrocarbons (compounds containing hydrogen and carbon) whose molecules contain a pair of carbon atoms linked together by a double bond. They are most often derived from natural gas or from low-molecular-weight components of petroleum, and their most prominent members are ethylene and propylene, which are basic hydrocarbons. All of these olefins are made into polymers (natural or synthetic substances, ranging from cellulose to concrete, that are composed of very large molecules), but by far the most important are polyethylene, the most widely used plastic in the world, and polypropylene, a resin made from turning polyethylene into a polymer. “Once we had a catalyst, we made it commercially available,” Grubbs told the Bard audience. For example, new hepatitis C drugs became possible because researchers could use the catalyst’s ability to efficiently carry out the metathesis reaction. One company, he said, is looking at synthesizing peptide analogs (a linear molecule of linked amino acids) using the catalyst. (Peptides are short proteins, many of which act as inhibitors and can be used for pharmaceuticals.) “Once you make a good catalyst, people around the world will find wonderful things to do with it. The key to development of a new reaction is making it easy for others to try.”

Other uses for metathesis, Grubbs said, include conversion of seed oils to chemicals and fuels. These oils consist of long-chain fatty (oleic) acids “with functionality,” meaning the addition of other atoms such as oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur—thereby enhancing the repertoire of what chemists can do with those molecules. For example, he said, “With petroleum, take out the hydrocarbon and you’ve separated fuels and chemicals. It’s not only green but economically viable; finally, metathesis is acting on a pretty big scale. The key is a catalyst that functions and that can be cost effective.” He discussed replacing polluting products, such as pesticides, with safer substances such as pheromones, the chemicals that female insects secrete to attract mates. “The single, very pure compound that

you can use pheromones and still call yourself an organic gardener.” Asked whether the pheromones could have a negative effect on the environment, Grubbs replied, “The effect is to keep insects away from a localized area, not kill them off. It’s part of a much broader strategy.” “Organic chemistry is really very simple,” Grubbs said. “You have electronic factors, positive and negative, which cancel each other, and steric factors, meaning you can’t put two things in the same space.” By making the given catalyst bigger, researchers were better able to control the selectivity (i.e., channel the production) of the compound that was catalyzed so they could extract 95 percent of what they were trying to make out of the mixture. But, Grubbs said, “It took us 15 years to get there.”

she releases can be detected at very low levels,” Grubbs said, and the concentrations can be determined. “The farmer can kill with pesticides or buy the same chemical the female insect makes and put it around all over the place. The male insect gets really confused. He flies to something—paper, or something else—but not the female. It just prevents the next generation from laying the eggs.” True to their principles, Grubbs and fellow researchers have been working for the last several years to make the product affordable. “The peach twig borer pheromone is a simple compound, which turns out to be pretty easy to make,” Grubbs said. “It’s a thermodynamically favorable process [energy is released rather than absorbed]. It’s a reliable and a good way to go. Cheaper means it’s used more broadly, and

Grubbs also described a byproduct of petroleum refining, the dicyclopentadiene thermoset polymer (DCPD), a component of glass or carbon fiber composites used in windmills, airplanes, and other aerodynamic objects. This high-impact polymer is formed through metathesis and is tougher and cheaper than most high-end composites, which are made with epoxy. “Epoxy is like honey—it takes a long time to make; poly DCPD takes much less time,” Grubbs said. “But is it greener? It’s hydrocarbon based, and that’s not good, but what’s it up against? Epoxy resin takes lots of steps and is pretty dirty. There’s a company that examines the footprint of both: this polymer is about half the carbon footprint. A petro-based product can be greener, depending on what it’s replacing.”

Robert Grubbs. photo Karl Rabe

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jeremy denk

“notes and words” earn pianist a macarthur by Kyle Gann

Pianist Jeremy Denk evokes the Cookie Monster to explain an asymmetrical phrase in a Brahms sonata. He takes a naughty pleasure in Wagner having sent Friedrich Nietzsche, his protégé, out to buy silk underwear for him. His description of eating Thai chicken pie in a Brooklyn restaurant at 1 a.m. brings up a quotation from Roland Barthes. He can describe how he learned to play a thick, Ivesian chord correctly from watching currents swirling in the Connecticut River. He calls Bach’s Goldberg Variations “merciless” because they don’t allow one to sweep mistakes under the rug. Through his music and his captivating writing, this faculty member at The Bard College Conservatory of Music has brought the life of a concert pianist—the entire life, not just the triumph of grand performances and the

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tedium of continual practicing—into the public eye and made it seem human and real. In granting him a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, the MacArthur Foundation credited him with “enlivening the musical experience for amateurs and aficionados alike through his eloquence with notes and words.” Denk has turned the rarefied life of a classical virtuoso into that of Everyman. Born in Durham, North Carolina, and raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico, he double majored in chemistry and music at Oberlin, then attended Indiana University and Juilliard School of Music. “I couldn’t really decide between all my academic things and music,” he explains from his New York City apartment, between trips as always. “It was an open question which science I should be in, because I was a math

Jeremy Denk. photo Michael Wilson

and science guy. Oberlin at that time was one of the more developed double-degree programs. I didn’t trust myself to go to a more academic environment and take piano lessons on the side and stay with it. I wanted to be somewhere I could do both.” In addition to The Bard College Conservatory of Music, Denk teaches at Mannes College The New School for Music. He has taught at the Conservatory since its inception in 2005, primarily master classes in piano. “When the Bard Conservatory was in its earliest planning stages, I asked Jeremy Denk to join the faculty because he is an extraordinary musician, and also because—having degrees in both chemistry and music from Oberlin—he embodies Bard’s educational values,” says Robert Martin, director of the Conservatory and Bard’s vice president for academic affairs. “His career has taken off as he gains the recognition he has earned as a great musician and now also as a fine writer. We’re very proud of him.” Denk abandoned chemistry after coming up with a spectacularly wrong answer on an experiment. “In music, of course,” he later wrote in Newsweek, “you can play wrong notes, make bad phrasing decisions—but sometimes the wrongest note played with conviction is better than the right one, and there are an infinite number of right answers.” He studied with Joseph Schwartz at Oberlin, then went on to Indiana University after having heard an unforgettable Bach performance by a pianist teaching there, György Sebo˝k. As Denk later recalled in the New Yorker, his first piano teacher, William Leland, “had been right to remind me that there was no end to the details one could strive for, but Sebök was also right—the desire for perfection could be a deadly weakness. Living comfortably in that paradox, without even knowing it, is part of being a musician.” The ability to articulate such insights is part of what has made Denk’s career. At Juilliard, he won the William Petschek Piano Debut Recital Award, and consequently made a high-profile 1997 debut at Alice Tully Hall. He won the 1997 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was a 1998 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He thereafter appeared with major orchestras across the country, and became a regular at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2005, however, as he started teaching at the Bard Conservatory, his celebrity entered a new realm with the launch of his widely read blog Think Denk (http://jeremydenk.net/blog/). His smooth, evocative writing style and deeply personal subject matter charmed readers, and he was soon one of the most oft-cited music bloggers. “Part of the shtick of the blog,” he says, “is this sort of window into things that most pianists or musicians probably wouldn’t reveal. It has a slightly too personal quality, and that’s what I like.” He has a contract from Random House to expand his musings into a book provisionally titled Every Good Boy Does Fine (the mnemonic for the staff lines of the treble clef). The pianist also has made an impact both by mastering the most ambitious monuments of the conventional repertoire and by championing some of the thorniest new music. Having fallen in love with the music of Charles Ives in college, he got the idea to pair Ives’s massive Concord Sonata with Beethoven’s equally massive Hammerklavier

Sonata, and found that presenters loved the concept. “I like to program combinations of works so that people get attuned to connections between things that they might otherwise compartmentalize in opposed camps. One of the joys of playing the Concord/Hammerklavier program was that many people said afterwards that Beethoven seemed wilder than Ives. That’s an inversion of expectation that I really like.” Likewise, in 2012 he made a Nonesuch recording pairing the fiercely mechanistic Etudes of the late Hungarian composer György Ligeti with Beethoven’s transcendent final Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111. Still, modern music remains only one of his interests. “I found when I was playing the Ligeti that I was beginning to have a Ligeti technique, and I think it’s really important to keep going back to Brahms, and Mozart, and Schumann, to center yourself in the piano’s golden age,” Denk says. “There’s something frenetic in the way Ligeti approaches the piano, which you don’t always want to bring to the piano. I like to keep a well-rounded diet.” So busy has Denk’s touring and recording schedule been that, when I spoke with him after the MacArthur announcement, he hadn’t yet had time to process the fact that he had received the prestigious fellowship. The five-year, unrestricted awards go to individuals in any field who show exceptional merit and the promise of continued creative work; Denk’s selection by the MacArthur committee brings to nine the number of Bardians who have won the award, among them choreographer Bill T. Jones, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and most recently, photographer An-My Lê (see Spring 2013 Bardian). “Obviously it will give me the freedom to prioritize, be choosier about how many dates I end up playing, so that I’m not running around like a maniac; have a little more time to practice new pieces, maybe commission some new pieces; and really iron out the projects I want to do and pursue them full time. Other than that I haven’t come up with any grand schemes. “I have a lot of desire to go after the Schumann I haven’t played, and Beethoven sonatas like Opus 7 and the ‘Pastorale.’ I’ve always wanted to do the Well-Tempered Clavier. I’ve wanted to immerse myself in Byrd and Frescobaldi, and early, early music. I’ve always wanted to perform the Conlon Nancarrow canons, which I love. There’s a lot of Bartók I haven’t played. Some of the other Ligeti things. I feel like I’ve neglected music from 1945 on. You get spoiled playing pieces that everyone knows are accepted masterworks. And the time it takes to absorb yourself into new things and develop a relationship with them is hard to find. I do feel a responsibility to do that. I feel a lot of responsibilities right now, and that’s a little symptom of overwhelmedness.” But, he says, “I’m not complaining. You think back to the times when you had fewer concerts. I’ve been caught in a little hamster wheel of concerts for a number of years now, and it’s important to be able to get off the wheel.” Kyle Gann is Taylor Hawver and Frances Bortle Hawver Professsor of Music.

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On and Off Campus Bard Welcomes Two Trustees

Top: Mark E. Brossman photo David Lubarsky Photography Bottom: Fredric S. Maxik ’86

Mark E. Brossman and Fredric S. Maxik ’86 have joined Bard College’s Board of Trustees. Brossman is a partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel and cohead of the law firm’s Employment and Employee Benefits Group. His areas of concentration include the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and education law. Named as one of the top 10 ERISA lawyers in the country, he received the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ prestigious Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award and serves on numerous boards. Maxik is founder and chief technology officer of Lighting Science Group Corporation, North America’s largest developer and manufacturer of LED bulbs and lighting systems. He has been honored as a White House Champion of Change and received the Congressional Medal of Merit, NASA Group Achievement Award, and Bard College’s John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science. He has more than 25 years’ experience in innovating environmentally friendly technologies.

New Early College Campus in Harlem Bard College and the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) have partnered to create the Bard Early College at the Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy. Modeled on Bard’s other highly successful public high school early college programs (Manhattan, Queens, Newark, and New Orleans), the curriculum supports a rigorous liberal arts program to intellectually engage and better prepare a diverse group of high school students for success in college. The new early college program enrolled 46 ninth- and 10th-grade students in a precollege course of study last fall. In the 11th and 12th grades, participating students will take college courses across the liberal arts and sciences. Once at full scale, the early college program will offer HCZ Promise Academy students the opportunity to earn up to one year of tuition-free Bard College credit concurrently with their high school diploma. The HCZ early college is directed by Kristy McMorris, who holds a Ph.D. from New York University in comparative literature and taught at BHSEC Queens from 2009 through 2013. As part of the partnership, Bard’s Institute for Writing and Thinking is providing professional development to HCZ Promise Academy teachers so they can engage their students with the writing-centered practices at the core of Bard’s early college curriculum. “The goal of everything we do is to get kids successfully through college,” says Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (who received an honorary degree from Bard in 2009). “Bard is leading the country as a thought leader and as a practitioner in providing the strategic pathways necessary for success in today’s challenging educational environment.” For more information, visit www.bard.edu/earlycollege/hcz/.

Levy Conference on the U.S. and World Economies

News from Simon’s Rock

The Levy Economic Institute’s 23rd Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, “Stabilizing Financial Systems for Growth and Full Employment,” took place April 9–10 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., with underwriting support from the Ford Foundation. Nearly five years after the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression, the U.S. economic recovery remains anemic, with low job growth and a high level of underemployment. The financial sector, however, has more than rebounded, posting record profits and leading analysts to warn that Wall Street may be headed for a major correction. Meanwhile, the 2010 DoddFrank financial reform bill, which has yet to be fully implemented, lacks the teeth to prevent another crisis from happening. In response to this uncertain economic climate, this year’s Minsky Conference addressed both financial reform and prosperity, drawing on Minsky’s work on financial instability and his proposal for achieving full employment. Panels focused on the design of a new, more robust, and stable financial architecture; fiscal austerity and the sustainability of economic recovery; the impact of U.S. monetary policy on emerging markets; and strategies for promoting a more equitable income distribution, among other topics. Speakers included Federal Reserve Board Governor Daniel K. Tarullo; U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio); Jason Furman, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers; Willem H. Buiter, global chief economist, Citi; Mercedes Marcó del Pont, former president, Central Bank of Argentina; Vítor Constâncio, vice president, European Central Bank (ECB); Charles L. Evans, president and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D–New York); Denis MacShane, former U.K. minister for Europe; and ECB Executive Board Member Peter Praet.

Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College welcomes a new chair of its Board of Overseers. Stuart Breslow replaces Emily Fisher, who remains on the board, as chair. Breslow, an attorney and chief compliance officer at Morgan Stanley, served on the board’s finance committee and became a full trustee in 2011. His son, Philip, graduated from Simon’s Rock in linguistics and music theory. Fisher is vice chair of the Bard College Board of Trustees; Breslow also sits on the board. For the second consecutive year, four Simon’s Rock alumni/ae have made the Forbes “30 Under 30” list: Jennifer Fan, founder of Arbalet Capital, an energy and agricultural commodities hedge fund, in the finance category; Loren AliKhan, associate in the appellate practice group at O’Melveny & Myers; Rhodes Scholar Ronan Farrow ’04 in law and policy; and photographer Claire Rosen in art and style. In other news, alumnus Raj Mukherji, a former Jersey City deputy mayor, won a state Assembly election to represent New Jersey’s 33rd Legislative District. At age 29, he is one of the youngest ever to be elected to this position. The district covers Hoboken, Union City, Weehawken, and parts of Jersey City. Mukherji founded an Internet consulting and software development company while in middle school, served in military intelligence for the Marine Corps Reserve at age 17, and became the Jersey City Housing Authority’s youngest commissioner and chairman at 24. And a team of Simon’s Rock students, faculty, and staff, as well as Bard student Clara Woolner ’16, a biology major, spent a month on the Caribbean island of Montserrat studying the island and its wildlife. The four-credit course in sustainability and tropical ecology included study of the Montserrat oriole, which has been critically endangered since a volcano eruption in 1997.

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for the Humanities to fund the beginning stages of the AEME, which will make Early Middle English texts and manuscripts more accessible. Celebrated soprano Dawn Upshaw, Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor of the Arts and Humanities and artistic director of The Bard College Conservatory of Music’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, won a 2014 Grammy Award for best classical vocal solo on the album Winter Morning Walks. The recording, which also received Grammys for best contemporary classical composition and best engineered album, classical, is a collaboration between Upshaw and jazz composer Maria Schneider. The cycle was commissioned by the Ojai Festival and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. A documentary about Norman Manea, writer in residence and Francis Flournoy Professor in European Studies and Culture, premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) in February. Entitled Le beau danger, the film by René Frölke examines Manea’s writing and raises questions of identity and exile.

MIchèle D. Dominy (center left) with Project Interchange delegation

Grants and Awards Bard Faculty Receive Honors Michèle D. Dominy, vice president and dean of the College and professor of anthropology, was part of a delegation of provosts and deans from nine American universities chosen to visit Israeli institutions of higher learning. The administrators explored opportunities for academic partnerships and collaboration in areas such as environmental sustainability, biotech, and women’s leadership. Hosted by the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange, the delegation met with senior Israeli government, academic, and civil society officials and traveled to the West Bank to convene with Palestinian leaders. Peter Filkins, visiting professor of literature, was a winner of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize for his most recent book of poems, The View We’re Granted. The New England Poetry Club awarded the prize for a book of poetry published in 2011 and 2012. Felicia Keesing, David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of Science, Mathematics, and Computing, and colleagues at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, have been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research in Kenya on interactions among wildlife, cattle, ticks, and people. The team will work with environmental economists at Stanford University to quantify the economic impacts of alternative management systems in East Africa. Bard students will be involved as field assistants over the next three years. Composer A. J. McCaffrey, faculty in the Longy School of Music of Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching Program, won the 2013 American Composers Orchestra (ACO) Underwood Emerging Composers Commission for Thank You for Waiting. The prize, one of the most coveted opportunities for emerging composers in the United States, allows an original work to be premiered by ACO in a future season. Night Moves, a feature film by Kelly Reichardt, artist in residence, was an official selection for the prestigious 70th Venice International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere. Judy Pfaff, Richard B. Fisher Professor in the Arts, won the International Sculpture Center’s 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes individual sculptors who have made exemplary contributions to the field of sculpture. Ben Rubenstein ’04 MAT ’06, a mathematics faculty member at BHSEC Manhattan, was honored with a 2013 Blackboard Teaching Award for excellence in education. “Just interacting with students and helping to make them more capable, independent young people is the real reward,” says Rubenstein. Marissa Libbon, assistant professor of literature, is associate editor for An Archive of Early Middle English (AEME), along with five colleagues from different institutions. Together they received a threeyear Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant from the National Endowment

Mellon Foundation Supports LAB In support of integrating artists into the liberal arts college environment, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to support residencies for six choreographers over four years as part of Live Arts Bard (LAB). The grant creates opportunities for choreographers to work with students in a variety of arts and other disciplines. “We’re deeply grateful for this generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,” says President Leon Botstein. “It will enable Bard to expand its commitment to rigorous programs in the performing arts for our undergraduates, while supporting working artists.” Fellowship in Art and Activism The Keith Haring Foundation is awarding an annual, cross-disciplinary fellowship for a visiting scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and the Human Rights Project. The Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism, a $400,000 grant over five years, will bring the Haring Fellow to Bard to explore art as a catalyst for social change and present original research in an annual lecture that will be distributed among academic institutions internationally. Thomas Keenan, director of the Human Rights Project, says the fellowship addresses a question vital to artist Haring’s legacy: How can art and artists play a real role in creating a more just society? Paul O’Neill, CCS Bard graduate program director, says the joint program “expands our commitment to investigating the political dimensions of artistic practice.” Bard Prison Initiative The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant from the New York Community Trust to support its efforts to provide a liberal arts college education to incarcerated women in New York State. The program offers a wide array of liberal arts courses leading to A.A. degrees, and will provide reentry support. Through the generosity of New Yorkers, past and present, the New York Community Trust supports a range of charitable activity important to the well-being and vitality of New York City. BPI also has received a $134,000 grant from the Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation to expand its New York college program with the launch of a new campus at Fishkill Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison for men in Beacon. With the new program at Fishkill, BPI now provides incarcerated women and men in six New York State prisons the opportunity to earn a Bard College degree while serving their sentences. BPI also offers reentry support at Fishkill to prepare graduates for continuing their academic study and developing professional careers upon release, similar to the reentry support currently provided at Woodbourne Correctional Facility. The Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation is a private philanthropy with a focus on New Yorkers in need.

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A Bardian at the White House

Student and Alumni/ae Accolades

Troy Simon ’16 introduced First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House forum on expanding college opportunity and received recognition from the first lady and President Barack Obama. Simon joined educators, policy experts, and other student leaders in January at a college opportunity summit that addressed lack of access to higher education for low-income and minority students. The president announced an expanded national college-access initiative at the event, in which more than 100 colleges participated. Simon, whose family in New Orleans lived through the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, was unable to read until he was 12. As a student, he avoided the classroom before he had a powerful realization. “At 14, I saw my brothers and sisters headed down the same path, so I knew that I had to make a better example for them,” Simon told those assembled at the White House. “I decided to change my life. . . . I enrolled in the academic support program called the Urban League College Track, which helped me academically and socially.” The after-school and summer program provides academic and other incentives to help motivated students achieve a college education. Simon added, “I couldn’t do it alone. . . . Today’s event isn’t about me, it’s about every kid in the United States, ensuring that they will succeed and reach their intellectual potential.” President Obama announced his education initiative as a part of his economic agenda of boosting college completion rates in the United States. “We still have a long way to go to unlock the doors of higher education to more Americans, especially lower-income Americans,” the president said. “We’re going to have to make sure they’re ready to walk through those doors.” Michelle Obama urged college and university presidents to widen college opportunities for low-income, underserved students like Simon. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, the first lady also used her story to highlight the power of education: “I know that there are so many kids out there just like me—kids who have a world of potential, but maybe their parents never went to college or maybe they’ve never been encouraged to believe they could succeed there.”

Duane Linklater MFA ’13 has won the 2013 Sobey Art Award, a major Canadian prize. An Omaskêko Cree, Linklater is from Moose Cree First Nation in northern Ontario. His work includes film and video installation, performance, and sculptural objects. Amber Winick BGC ’13 has been selected for a 2013–14 Fulbright research grant. She will go to Hungary to investigate the histories of approximately 50 indigenous designs. The U.S. Fulbright Commission named Winick as an alternate in 2012. Elizabeth Przybylski ’06 was awarded a Fulbright Canada fellowship to support her musicology research in Canada during the 2013–14 academic year. Simon’s Rock alumna Emily Anne Schwab won a 2013– 14 Fulbright U.S. Student award to Germany. Thanks to Tom Dengler ’61, last summer 11 Bard students contributed to leading organizations in their fields. Winners of the 2013 Dengler Fellowships were: Dylan Cassidy ’14, who interned with the Organization for Youth Empowerment in El Progreso, Honduras; Aliya Daniels ’13, an intern with the African Center for Migration and Society at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Julia DeFabo ’14, who worked with a Nigerian artist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art; Francesca di Rienzo ’14, a research intern for a surgical epidemiologist at Épicentre, part of Doctors Without Borders; Michael Ernst ’14, who interned at the Contemporary Image Collective and at the Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies in Cairo; Maya Knight ’16, an intern at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art; Erica Newton ’15, who traveled to Italy to document a tour of the Ethiopian circus troupe Fekat; Diego Parra ’14, who made a film about transitional justice in his home country, Uruguay; Elsa Raker ’14, who helped map the contemporary landscape of Africa at Resolution, dedicated to photography collections in Africa; Nadine Tadros ’14, a Middle East analyst intern at Americans for Informed Democracy in Washington, D.C.; and Alice Weston ’14, who worked with the Prison Public Memory Project in Hudson, New York. The Human Rights Project, Bard’s Center for Civic Engagement, and the Difference and Media Project also supported several of these student projects.

Dreaming to Achieve

Annual Civic Engagement Day

Led by Yonah Greenstein ’13, Dream to Achieve (DTA) is starting an academic after-school program for underresourced youth in Hudson, New York. Working with tutors from Bard’s Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program, the afterschool instruction, which began in December, fights educational inequality in the Hudson community. The program focuses on organizational and time man-

The Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) organized Bard’s Fourth Annual Civic Engagement Day in conjunction with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day national call to service. More than 300 Bard students reached out through volunteer efforts, visiting 30 sites in neighboring communities. Some conducted science activities at the Astor Home in Rhinebeck, a mental health support center for children. Students attended a social justice workshop on campus. Columbia County Habitat for Humanity had Bard volunteers prep a new site. Bard’s food sustainability advocate, Corinna Borden, invited first-years to develop campus-wide sustainable food initiatives in the Sustainable Food Think Tank. Others coordinated children’s art workshops through Red Hook Engage; helped with Forensics Day, a child-oriented, deductive reasoning science program at public libraries in Red Hook and Tivoli; hosted a Bollywood dance; and participated in an e-waste collection. Students rolled up their sleeves to clean out barns at the Woodstock Animal Sanctuary. Community organizations such as Young Rhinebeck and Ramapo for Children visited campus for a day of science led by Bard first-years. Students helped Girl Scouts earn their “Playing the Past” badge through an exploration of famous women in history. Bard Branches, an after-school and community engagement project for middle-school students in Red Hook and Germantown, ran an Adventure Day of enrichment activities for local children. Participants were invited to campus to play games, solve riddles, text their trivia knowledge, and bond with Bard students who serve as

agement skills, help with homework, and preparatory support for Regents and SAT exams. Like all of DTA’s programs, it is provided at no cost to participants. Under the umbrella of Bard Center for Civic Engagement (CCE), DTA and its after-school program contribute to CCE’s expanded presence in Hudson. Over the last five years, DTA has worked to build a relationship between Bard College and Hudson and create a culture of college attendance in Hudson. Efforts include regular trips to the Bard campus for Hudson high school students, weekly basketball clinics in Hudson led by Bard student-athletes, and leadership development workshops for Hudson teenagers who exhibit high levels of potential and responsibility. For the past three summers, DTA has brought Hudson students to Bard for a free, one-week summer camp. Last summer, more than 95 students from Hudson experienced life on Bard’s campus. Bard alumni/ae and students who have worked for and contributed to DTA, which began as a Trustee Leader Scholar project, include Patrick Lichtenstein ’15; Jeremy Arnstein ’13; Adam Turner ’06; Justin White ’10; David Pollet ’10; and others. For more information, visit www.dtabasketball.com or e-mail Greenstein at yg618@bard.edu.

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mentors and role models.

In the Foreign Service: Jean-Marc Gorelick ’02 After graduating from Bard, Jean-Marc Gorelick ’02 knew he wanted to go to Africa. He had never been to the continent, but fell in love with the photos and stories of his friend Will Fenton ’02, who had studied in Ghana. They both applied for positions at the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH), an organization dedicated to improving the lives of people in sub-Saharan Africa by addressing poverty and illiteracy. “Each day, we waited in anticipation for the IFESH acceptance letter,” he recalls. “It seemed like a shoo-in. Months later, we received rejection letters. We were shocked. It was the only thing I had applied for because I was so convinced of getting the assignment. Key lesson: there are no guarantees in life.” Gorelick instead took a job in the financial sector in New York, but felt unfulfilled. He decided to apply to the Peace Corps. “It seemed like the perfect way to get to Africa and luckily, unlike IFESH, they accepted me. Getting rejected hurt my ego, but was a blessing in disguise. Peace Corps opened many doors for me. I strongly recommend it to all Bard graduates.” From 2003 to 2005, Gorelick worked for the Peace Corps in Togo—a small West African country bordered by Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, and the Gulf of Guinea—and witnessed firsthand the country’s tenuous transition to democracy. During his time as a Peace Corps volunteer in one of the world’s poorest countries, he met his mentor, Ambassador Charles Twining, who inspired him and changed his career trajectory. Gorelick recalls, “We traveled the countryside together. He was very interested in taking a pulse of the country, not merely through meetings with high officials, but also from farmers, food sellers, young people, village elders—in short, every segment of society. He cared about the direction Togo was taking, particularly in the post-coup environment.” Togo gained independence from France in 1960, but suffered under the dictatorship of Gnassingbé Eyadéma for almost four decades. After Eyadéma’s death in early 2005, a military coup d’etat brought his son Faure Gnassingbé to power. Civilian uprisings throughout the country led to the deaths of more than 500 people. International condemnation pressured Gnassingbé to step down and call for presidential elections, which were held without independent oversight in April

Jean-Marc Gorelick ’02 (center left) with military personnel and Secretary of State John Kerry

great thinkers on mourning. At Bard, learning isn’t limited to the classroom. Learning is a way of life, and intellectual curiosity isn’t meant to fuel a hobby. Rather, it forms an essential strategy for dealing with life’s difficulties through thoughtful inquiry. This very much informs who I am today.” After the Peace Corps, Gorelick worked for both nonprofit and private organizations focused on democracy and foreign governance assistance. His experience in Togo, where he lived through the coup and violent electoral process, started his interest in this field. He attended graduate school in international development studies with a political science concentration, at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, and has worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) since 2009. He has observed and assisted in elections in Liberia, Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal—and now Afghanistan, where he will stay until August. His mission is to support Afghan-led inclusive, credible, and transparent presiden-

the foreign service is truly a career for professional and personal growth. as soon as you master one set of skills, you move on to the next assignment for an entirely new experience. 2005. Gnassingbé won 60 percent of the vote, but the opposition maintains the election was fraudulent. The United Nations reports 40,000 Togolese fled to neighboring countries in the post-election instability. After Gorelick left Togo, he recalls, Twining sent him an e-mail, “saying that I’d make a superb foreign service officer (FSO). Until then, I had never even considered myself as an FSO. To have this accomplished statesman believe in me changed how I viewed myself.” Writing has also played a crucial role in Gorelick’s life. He published several articles in the Christian Science Monitor about his experiences in Togo. “At Bard, we learned that writing isn’t merely a mechanical skill. Rather, it forms a way of engaging with, and making sense of, complex experiences,” says Gorelick. “Peace Corps was difficult and complicated, and the process of writing helped me make sense of it all.” A literature major, Gorelick wrote on justice and mourning in Antigone, Hamlet, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved for his Senior Project. “True to Bard fashion, where the boundary between life inside and outside the classroom is forever blurred, this Senior Project resonated on a very personal level for me,” he explains. “I wanted to explore how mourning was treated in the domain of literature and dramaturgy through the ages because I was grappling with my own loss at the time. My friend passed very suddenly at Bard, and I felt like the only way to properly handle her passing was to engage in a conversation with the

tial and provincial elections this spring. “Afghanistan stands at a crucial crossroads in its history. A peaceful transfer of power from one elected leader to another is critical for securing the country’s democratic future,” he says. “Afghanistan faces daunting challenges, as becomes readily apparent when you read the newspaper or turn on the news. However, for social indicators like the number of children in school, life expectancy, reduced maternal and child mortality rates, economic growth, and per capita income, there’s been a tremendous amount of progress in the past 12 years. The key question is how to sustain this kind of change over the next decade.” Gorelick’s next post will be Cambodia, and depending on the assignment, every two or four years he will serve in different countries until he retires. “The very nature of my line of work is incredibly challenging. Serving in Afghanistan means a high-threat environment, long hours, and high stress at work. On the other hand, overcoming challenges is part of what makes this work rewarding,” he says. “If you love to learn, this is the perfect job. Each country poses its own unique set of challenges and opportunities. The Foreign Service is truly a career for professional and personal growth. As soon as you master one set of skills, you move on to the next assignment for an entirely new experience. But, most important, your work makes a difference in people’s lives.”

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Left to right: Evan Spigelman ’09, Anna Henschel ’09, Nat Kusinitz ’09, Veronica Hunsinger-Loe ’09, and Brian Fabry Dorsam ’09. photo Jessica Chevis

Pushing the Limits: Skin Horse Theater Skin Horse Theater has only one ground rule: to try what they have never tried before. Since its inception at Bard in 2007, Skin Horse, an experimental performance collective, has pursued uncharted territory with every new production. Currently based in New Orleans, the company’s five horses are Brian Fabry Dorsam ’09, Anna Henschel ’09, Veronica Hunsinger-Loe ’09, Nat Kusinitz ’09, and Evan Spigelman ’09. Together they have devised a variety of original works, adapted literary oeuvres, reimagined existing theatrical works (Cats performed with real cats), choreographed a dance piece based on Japanese Butoh set in a Bywater warehouse, and launched an annual community theater festival of new plays. “We rehearse in living rooms, schools, art museums, warehouses, and public parks, and perform in living rooms, schools, art museums, warehouses, and public parks. We like it this way,” they declare on their website. The results of their collaborations have been sensationally received in New Orleans. As one fan says on the site, “Each of their works takes the notion of theater and expands it into an experience that involves so much more of the self than a typical play. The experience is so strong that I have left each production strangely feeling as if the performance had happened to me.” Skin Horse started as a series of conversations among the five friends, all passionate about theater. “Our mission with theater is to exploit the medium to its fullest potential,” says Kusinitz. “Theater is not just a story to be told by actors on a stage. It’s not like a movie. When you go to a piece of theater, you are having a real experience. All elements of the work—how it looks, smells, the feeling that the space gives you—are equally important and all in dialogue together. We create full experiences that really engage you, not just emotionally and intellectually, but also physically.” For Dorsam and Hunsinger-Loe, who were theater majors concentrating on acting, and Kusinitz, a theater major who concentrated on directing, the formation of the company and the production of their first show, Curiouser, became their Senior Projects. The other cofounders—Henschel, a religion major, and Spigelman, a historical studies major who focused on gender and sexuality— were involved in theater mainly through the technical side and had just reclaimed the Old Gym as a student performance space. From their initial meetings, “the ideas swirled together to become Curiouser, a play about Sylvia Plath and Lewis Carroll,” says Hunsinger-Loe. “In that first show, we began to solidify a kind of process that involves exploration. We see something interesting, and then say, ‘Let’s find a theatrical way to show it.’” Skin Horse calls this system of creative collaboration “devising,” in which people bring multiple ideas and inspirations to the table and write a play together. “All our original works really do 28 on and off campus

come from the brain of all five of us,” Henschel says. “You can’t separate us— all five of us are earmarked.” During the devising stage there are no roles. As the project evolves, each member’s role—director, actors, lighting, sound, costume design, production manager—begins to form. Says Spigelman, “The ideas go back and forth. Even if one person proposes an idea, it goes through such transformation, it really becomes a group process and work.” A project often starts with a central challenge. Their most recent and most ambitious staging to date, Nocturnes (I–III)—which won a Big Easy Theater Award in March—is a piece about outer space in which humanity is the main character and the audience experiences its relationship to the cosmos throughout the ages. “Our central challenge was how to put the cosmos on stage,” explains Kusinitz. “It’s a triptych. We start in the mission control room, recreating man’s first mission into space with Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. The second act is a zero-gravity ballet—a really beautiful ballet with invisible people on stage puppeteering the object. The third act has no performers. It is an attempt to stage the cosmos itself, a visual spectacle of the universe.” The piece opened to rave reviews in the New Orleans press and the NOLA Defender called it “beautiful and poignant,” a reminder that “space and the people who want to explore it are such stuff that dreams are made on.” For their horror play, SARAH, the central challenge was creating theater that could truly scare an audience. They began by watching more than 20 horror films—mostly classics—and trying to pinpoint exactly where fear comes from and how it builds inside the viewer. In exchange for helping to gut an abandoned house, Skin Horse was granted the space for the show. “The audience came in through the back of the house, in a gutted space, like the ghost of a house,” says Hunsinger-Loe. “Then they sat down in the front where everything appeared normal. The play was about a possession. We left a part of ourselves in that house—the ghost of the play. The house is now a community arts space.” When not madly producing avant-garde theater, Dorsam works as a teacher in a Waldorf School kindergarten; Henschel is a freelance events manager; Hunsinger-Loe is a youth arts educator with Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans; Kusinitz works in a coffee shop; Spigelman is a freelance theater tech as well as cofounder of the New Orleans Queer Youth Theater. As each follows his or her individual path, the company is evolving too. “We are ready to find ways to reach a larger audience. You have to be able to move your work around in order to be sustainable in a professional way,” says Hunsinger-Loe. “I thank my lucky stars every day that I met peers at Bard who were as interested in making this happen as I was,” says Kusinitz. “Having a common Bard education gives us a vision and language we all share.” More information is at www.skinhorsetheater.org.

Bard Fiction Prize Goes to Zombie-Novel Author

Writer Gaiman at Bard

Bennett Sims has won the 2014 Bard Fiction Prize for his debut novel, A Questionable Shape (Two Dollar Radio, 2013). Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the story features a son looking for his undead father. The novel transcends traditional zombie narrative to deliver a penetrating rumination on the nature of memory and loss. The judges of the Bard Fiction Prize Committee ”delight in welcoming to the literary community of Bard a writer whose first novel represents a powerful (and very readable) fusion of genres—a story about the vagaries of human perception which is also a wild romp of zombies biting through a curiously lyrical apocalypse. The writing is intricate, thoughtful, its characters are like most of us obsessed with games and devices, the text bejeweled with footnotes. The author was one of the last students of David Foster Wallace, who was the first reader of the first version of this haunting novel of love and estrangement.” Born in Baton Rouge, Sims studied at Pomona College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received a Provost Fellowship and a MichenerCopernicus Award after graduating. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Tin House, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Established in 2001 by Bard College to encourage and support promising young fiction writers, the prize consists of a $30,000 cash award and appointment as writer in residence for one semester. Sims is on campus this spring; he gave a public reading on February 24. He is continuing his writing and meeting informally with students.

This spring, Neil Gaiman—a prolific creator of prose, poetry, film, journalism, graphic novels, song lyrics, and drama—joins Bard’s theater and performance faculty as professor in the arts. Gaiman is teaching an advanced writing workshop exploring the history of the fantastic, approaches to fantasy fiction, and the meaning of fantasy today, offered through the Written Arts Program and the Experimental Humanities Program. As a 2012–13 Live Arts Bard resident artist, he taught a weeklong creative writing workshop, gave a reading that some 800 people attended, and performed with Neil Gaiman his wife, musician Amanda Palmer, before photo Kimberly Butler a sold-out audience in the Fisher Center. On April 4, Gaiman held a conversation in Sosnoff Theater with acclaimed graphic novelist Art Spiegelman (author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Maus and other novels). The two spoke about cartooning and writing, working across artistic mediums, friendship, identity, and more. Gideon Lester, professor of theater and performance and director of theater programs, says of Gaiman, “He is an artistic entrepreneur who has pioneered new forms of artistic expression through digital media and social networking.” Gaiman’s most recent novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, is a number one New York Times bestseller; he created the Sandman graphic novels and stories for younger readers, including The Graveyard Book, which made Gaiman the first author ever to win both the Newbery Medal and Carnegie Medal for the same book. His work has been widely adapted for film, television, and radio, including the animated feature film Coraline (2009), nominated for both a BAFTA award and an Academy Award. His 2011 episode for the Doctor Who series, “The Doctor’s Wife,” won the Hugo, Ray Bradbury, and SFX awards.

Romeo & . . . Anne? In February, Live Arts Bard (LAB), the Fisher Center’s residency and commissioning program, presented three performances of Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Romeo & Juliet, a “hilariously deconstructed take” on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, the performances featured Robert M. Johanson and Anne Gridley ’02. Following one sold-out performance that included many alumni/ae, Gridley met with those who had gotten tickets through the Alumni/ae Affairs Office. The ensuing Q&A gave fellow alums the chance to hear how Gridley went from Bard to performing with an avant-garde theater company. The actor, who is teaching a Devised Theater Lab this semester for students in the Theater and Performance Program, was as funny off stage as she was on. She also said she was thrilled to be back on campus as a teacher and performer. “The students are ready to try anything,” she said admiringly. “It’s just not like that everywhere else.” Romeo & Juliet evolved from a series of phone calls to friends of the company, who were asked to give the plot of Shakepeare’s play to the best of their recollection. The resulting synopses were often fuzzy or flawed, and they were duly incorporated into the piece, which brilliantly demonstrates how creativity fills in the gaps when memory falters. In a laudatory review in the New York Times of a Manhattan performance, Charles Isherwood described Gridley’s Juliet as possessing “a sullen-adolescent’s face that can twist itself into all manner of expressions suggesting certainty or confusion or inspiration . . . she imparts her disjointed monologues with a spunky comic style that accentuates the logical incoherences and grammatical absurdities.” Robert M. Johanson and Anne Gridley ’02 in Romeo & Juliet photo Ethan Levitas/The New Yorker

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Change in Action Change in Action is a campus-wide leadership development program established at Bard in 2009. According to Julie Duffstein, director of student activities and the campus center, Change in Action “seeks to engage participants in a process that challenges them to develop consciousness of self, other, and the collective.” Following the Social Change Model of Leadership, which is grounded in the development of specific skills and the assumption that leadership is collaborative and applicable to all, the program “strives to empower participants to become effective change agents,” she says. Originally construed as a series of workshops during each spring semester, the program now embraces an Alumni/ae Speaker Series and an annual conference in addition to the workshops, each of which explores a different level of leadership.

CCS Bard Happenings Charles Esche Wins Irmas Award The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) named Charles Esche as the recipient of the 2014 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. Esche is a curator and writer living between Edinburgh, Scotland; Eindhoven, Netherlands; and São Paulo, Brazil. He is director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and editorial codirector and cofounder of Afterall Publishing in London, which focuses on the relation of contemporary art to society. Esche received the Irmas Award at a gala celebration and dinner on April 2 in New York City. Selected by an independent panel of leading contemporary art curators, museum directors, and artists, Esche was recognized for his dynamic curatorial vision and dedication to the field. In September, he will curate the São Paulo Biennial with a team of seven. He also has curated or cocurated many major international exhibitions. In 2012 he was awarded the Princess Margriet Award—an annual honor given to European artists, intellectuals, and activists whose work points toward a culture for an inclusive Europe—by the European Cultural Foundation. The Irmas award was designed by artist Lawrence Weiner and comes with the Audrey Irmas Prize of $25,000. The award, now in its 17th year, reflects CCS Bard’s commitment to recognizing individuals who have defined new thinking, bold vision, and dedicated service to the field of exhibition practice.

Charles Esche. photo Bram Saeys Meintje van der Brand

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Previous Change in Action speakers have included Marieluise Hessel, a Bard trustee and founding chair of the CCS Bard Board of Governors whose extensive art collection is on permanent loan to Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies; Gabriel Blau ’02, deputy director of strategic advancement for Family Equality Council, a national organization advocating for LGBTQ families; and Bard President Leon Botstein, who spoke about ways to channel passion into action. The most recent speaker was Pia Carusone ’03, former chief of staff to then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and executive director of Americans for Responsible Solutions, who returned to campus in December to talk about creating a national conversation on gun issues that is not politically motivated or emotionally charged. Change in Action is hoping to book more alumni/ae speakers in the future; those interested in participating may contact Duffstein at jsilvers@bard.edu or 845-758-7099. John G. Hanhardt Archives to CCS The CCS Bard Library and Archives has acquired the archives of John G. Hanhardt, noted film and media arts curator. The donation supports CCS Bard’s 20th Anniversary Next Decade campaign, which aims to build a unique research collection comprising the personal papers and archives of innovative and influential contemporary art curators, dealers, critics, galleries, and alternative art spaces. During a long career—from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Smithsonian American Art Museum—Hanhardt revolutionized film and media arts representation in museum exhibition contexts. The John G. Hanhardt Archives document Hanhardt’s curatorial practice in five major art institutions from 1970 to 2013, and include an extensive personal library, limited edition multiples, and exhibition memorabilia. “John Hanhardt has made a unique contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of the moving image within a contemporary art context,” says Ann Butler, director of the library and archives at CCS. The transfer of the Hanhardt archives will begin this summer and take place over three years. CCS Bard Upcoming Exhibitions On view from June 28 through September 21, CCS Bard’s Hessel Museum of Art will present Amy Sillman: one lump or two, curated by Helen Molesworth (who won CCS Bard’s Award for Curatorial Excellence in 2011). Amy Sillman MFA ’95 is cochair of the painting faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. The exhibition, a major museum survey tracing the development of Sillman’s work over the past 25 years, includes abstract paintings, drawings, cartoons, and animations. A VIP preview will be held on June 27. Also previewing on June 27 is Anne Collier in the CCS Bard Galleries. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Anne Collier is the photographer’s first major exhibition, tracing her career from 2002 to the present. All Can Curate CCS hosted Fondazione Prada and Qatar Museums Authority in presenting Curate, a global competition organized to find new curating talent. Astrid Welter, project director of Fondazione Prada, introduced the activities of the two art institutions, the award, and the application process to CCS students, stimulating a discussion on what an exhibition can be. The jury states: “The notion of ‘curating’ no longer belongs just to the museum. With the development of digital and social media, it has now become possible for anyone to participate in the selection, editing, and communication of ideas.” Curate provides one winner, announced at the end of April, with the opportunity to curate the exhibition of his/her dreams. The jury includes Hans Ulrich Obrist, codirector of the Serpentine Gallery, London, who won the Award for Curatorial Excellence from CCS Bard in 2011.

“My mood is improved by music, and sitting down in front of a piece of art or sculpture—that is medicine.” The idea for O+ was hatched between two of Chandler’s friends, an artist and a dentist, over a beer. They called in Chandler to help recruit health-care providers, and within six months the inaugural O+ Festival was born. “The first year was all about me calling people. But once they’d done it, they wanted to come back. Now it’s not hard to get providers to join.” In the first year, the organizers were the people most excited about the festival. The second year, the artists and musicians expressed gratitude for everything Chandler was doing on their behalf. Now, members of the health-care community thank him for allowing them to become involved. “Doctors and providers are altruistic at heart, and that gets beaten out of them—in med school, dealing with money pressure, and stressful work environments,” Chandler says. “But at O+, they get music and art in their lives, which is of great value to them.” Despite coming from a family of doctors, Chandler, a hospitalist (physician who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients) at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson, New York, came to medicine later in life. After graduating from Bard with a degree in chemistry, he studied organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of South Carolina; became an architectural photographer’s assistant in New York; wrote lyrics and performed

Art Chandler ’82. photo Rachel Brennecke

Bartering Art for Medicine: Art Chandler ’82 Dr. Art Chandler ’82 has become a force behind one of the most exciting movements in community health care started in the Hudson Valley. In 2010, Chandler cofounded the O+ Festival: The Art of Medicine for the Medicine of Art (www.opositivefestival.org). “It’s the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done,” he says, a statement that means a lot from a man who was part of the team that researched, defined the structure for, and designed the original model for the HIV retroviral protease inhibitors. “O+ is a deeply needed, ingenious, and innovative way to address the health of our community and address individuals in the community. As doctors, we ask, how do we keep people well? Giving people support, and making them realize that they are important, matters. The presence of mental, physical, and social well-being is a large part of being well.” The O+ festival is a three-day event held in Kingston, New York, in which art is exchanged for health care. “Musicians play for free, artists donate their work, and we supply them with a weekend of medical, health, dental, and wellness care,” explains Chandler. “You need art and music to build a community. Without that culture, your society becomes worthless and withers away. Art and music are traditionally undervalued. Medicine has become unfairly overvalued. We consider them of equal value, and if you take that as a premise, we can barter them.” Chandler, who loves music and appreciates art, adds,

spoken word in Philadelphia; and moved all around the country. “I was living a rock-and-roll lifestyle and the only thing that kept me stable was debt—it would focus me. So I asked myself, how do I get into the most debt?” he jokes. “At 32, I decided to go medical school.” He was conducting his residency at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento when he met his future wife at a Christmas party—in New York. He moved back east, and they now live in Tivoli, New York. He devotes much of his energy to the O+ cause. So far, all of the organizers’ work has been pro bono. Kale Kaposhilin ’99, who owns a multimedia and web production company in Kingston called Evolving Media Network, is director of technology for the O+ Festival. “My favorite contribution to O+ is a project that we’ve named StudiO+,” says Kaposhilin. “It’s essentially a volunteer-run video/audio studio. We produce audio and video recordings with O+ artists and shoot short interviews about their experience with the festival and their lives as artists needing health care and not being able to afford it. At the heart of the matter, O+ is a shared experience. In today’s day and age, community is an increasingly important, and all too often missing, component of human wellness.” His company also donated the production of an entire O+ web platform so that the O+ organization could grow into a multicity, nationwide experience. Indeed, O+ has taken off. For the 2013 festival, 200 bands applied for 40 spots, including some big-name, international musicians and artists such as the British group Spiritualized and street artist Gaia. Eighty-eight primary-care doctors, dentists, nurses, psychologists, massage therapists, chiropractors, nutritionists, yoga instructors, and other wellness providers participated. Major news outlets including the New York Times and San Francisco Guardian covered it. San Francisco hosted its own O+ Festival for the first time this year. “It’s self-promoting and organically growing in other communities,” Chandler says. “We have put together a playbook so that other communities can try it. We let them operate under our nonprofit. Every year we’ve gotten bigger and received more publicity because it’s such an interesting, timely, and necessary conversation.” Chandler has also given a TED Talk, “Redefining ‘We,’” at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, about the O+ Festival and ongoing changes and potential in health-care delivery. Plans are in the making for a permanent clinic that would make health and wellness care accessible year round to artists and musicians. As the festival grows, the organizers are asking themselves in what direction to take the movement. “The point of O+ is to build a community,” Chandler asserts. “The festival is really a celebration of that community-building.”

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Bard Conservatory Musical Notes European Tour In June, the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by President Leon Botstein, will tour Moscow (Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory), St. Petersburg (Mariinsky Theatre), Budapest (Great Hall, Liszt Academy), Berlin (Konzerthaus), Warsaw (Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall), Vienna (Konzerthaus), Bratislava (Slovak Radio Concert Hall), and Prague (Rudolfinum, Dvorˇák Hall). The tour incorporates key aspects of the annual Bard Music Festival, now in its 25th year (see page 4). Two programs are being offered. “Copland and His World” features a Martinu°-Bartók-Copland program with pianist Peter Serkin, Conservatory faculty, as soloist in Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto. “Shostakovich and His World” features soprano Dawn Upshaw, artistic director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, as soloist in Lutosławski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables, as well as performances of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 15, Rossini’s William Tell Overture, and Siegfried’s Funeral Music from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. A patrons tour is also planned to accompany the Conservatory Orchestra tour. For information about concert tickets for the tour, e-mail Ann Gabler at gabler@bard.edu or visit www.bard.edu/conservatory. Opera Premiere In March, the Conservatory Orchestra showcased an opera double bill to benefit the Scholarship Fund of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program. Carl Christian Bettendorf conducted the world premiere of a new commission by Shawn Jaeger, who teaches composition and musicianship at The Bard College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division. Payne Hollow, with a libretto by author Wendell Berry based on Berry’s play Sonata at Payne Hollow, is a tribute to lives lived in harmony with the land. James Bagwell, professor of music, conducted The Turn of the Screw, a chamber work by Benjamin Britten, based on the supernatural novella by Henry James.

Singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program. photo Rob Shannon

Vocal Arts Concert Singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program of The Bard College Conservatory of Music gathered on the steps of the Beattie-Powers Place historic mansion in Catskill, New York, after their sold-out concert, Time Remembered: Aspects of Proust as Seen through Music, in the fall. The concert featured music by Debussy, Saint-Saëns, and others. Front row (L to R): Helen Huang ’15, Laura Soto-Bayomi ’15, Hyanghyun Lee (postgraduate collaborative piano fellow), Sara LeMesh ’14, Erika Switzer (faculty), Elizabeth Cohen ’14, Katherine Maysek ’15, Angela Aida Carducci ’14, and Lucy Fitz Gibbon ’15. Second row: Michael Hofmann ’15, Diana Yodzis ’15, Devony Smith ’14, Kimberly Feltkamp ’15, Kayo Iwama (associate director), Dawn Upshaw (artistic director), Jeremy Hirsch ’15, Vincent Festa ’14, Sarah Tuttle ’15.

Innovative Writers Read at Bard

Eleanor Catton (center) with students. photo China Jorrin ’86

Shortly after winning the 2013 Man Booker Prize, New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton packed the Bard chapel for a reading as part of the Bard College Contemporary Fiction Series. At 28, Catton made history as the youngest author to win the Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries, which is also the longest work ever to receive the award. An epic historical novel set in the 19th century during New Zealand’s gold rush, The Luminaries combines an experimental structure with old-fashioned narrative.

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The spring 2014 Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series brought accomplished authors in the vanguard of fiction to campus to read from their works. Amy Hempel, a writer of short fiction, is the author of Reasons to Live and At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, among other books. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, won the Ambassador Book Award from the English Speaking Union for best fiction of the year, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among other honors, Hempel also won the PEN/Malamud Award for the Short Story in 2009, an inaugural fellowship from the United States Artists Foundation, a medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches writing at Harvard. D. T. Max is a graduate of Harvard and staff writer at the New Yorker. His new book, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, was a New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery. Michael Cunningham is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Hours. His other novels include A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, and By Nightfall; his nonfiction work is Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. His novel The Snow Queen is forthcoming in May. Cunningham also received a Whiting Writers Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and Michener Fellowship from the University of Iowa. He is a senior lecturer in the English Department at Yale University.

Bard Graduate Center Highlights Twenty Years and Counting The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture (BGC) celebrated its 20th anniversary year with a symposium that examined the elements of practice and theory that have come to define the BGC. An array of speakers from across the national, disciplinary, and institutional spectrum put BGC’s achievements of the past 20 years in context and outlined paths into the future. Discussions focused on the future of exhibitions, display and interpretation, publishing and the digital challenge, and how philosophy might inform museum practice, as well as the role of the research institute and the necessity of research for teaching. At a cake and champagne toast opening the anniversary year earlier in the fall, BGC faculty, staff, alumni/ae, students, and friends joined in the festivities, which included tours of exhibitions and the academic building in Manhattan. BGC Director and Founder Susan Weber, Iris Horowitz Professor in the History of the Decorative Arts, Bard College President Leon Botstein, and Norton Batkin, vice president and dean of graduate studies, made remarks at the gathering. In conjunction with the 20th anniversary, Yale University Press has published History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000. The landmark survey is edited by BGC Professor Pat Kirkham and Weber. The volume, which spans six centuries of global design, is a meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated history of decorative arts and design in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world. The book features the work of 27 leading authorities and Heather McCormick BGC ’98 as project editor.

Iris Award Winners BGC has announced the recipients of the 18th Annual Iris Foundation Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts. Iris Cantor is the honoree for the Outstanding Patron Award. Cantor is chairman and president of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation. Established in 1978, the foundation is dedicated to enhancing cultural life through the visual and performing arts, and to advancing knowledge to address the foremost medical challenges confronting humanity. Dame Rosalind J. Savill, OBE, honoree for the Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship Award, is curator emeritus and former director of the Wallace Collection, London. Her major, three-volume publication, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, won her the National Art Collections Fund Prize for Scholarship in 1990. Among other distinctions, she is a Fellow of the British Academy and Dame of the British Empire for services to the arts. Finbarr Barry Flood, honoree for the Outstanding Mid-Career Scholar Award, is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History at New York University. He publishes on Islamic architectural history and historiography, cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic art, image theory, technologies of representation, and Orientalism. Martin Levy, honoree for the Outstanding Dealer Award, has worked with the London antique dealer H. Blairman & Sons since 1975 and is the fourth generation of his family to be with the firm. He is a member of the Spoliation Advisory Panel, and spent 10 years as treasurer of the Furniture History Society. The Iris Foundation Awards were presented at a luncheon at the Colony Club in New York City on April 9. Current Exhibitions Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture runs in the BGC main gallery April 11 through August 10. Using the trope of the river to explore the intersections between art, craft, and design in Colombian contemporary culture, the exhibition reveals the intricate ways culture and nature are intertwined across disciplines. In the Focus Gallery, through August 3, is Carrying Coca: 1,500 Years of Andean Chuspas. This exhibition considers how two components of Andean life—coca leaves and handwoven textiles—are brought together in the small woven bag called a chuspa, and examines this traditional object in changing cultural and economic contexts.

The Evolution of Errors Recent research in psychology and behavioral economics has shown that people make systematic, predictable cognitive errors in their thinking and judgment. On March 6, psychologist Laurie R. Santos, associate professor at Yale University, spoke at Bard for the 10th Andrew J. Bernstein ’68 Memorial Lecture. “The Evolution of Irrationality: Insights from Primates” explored the evolutionary origins of such errors by providing evidence that nonhuman primates—our closest evolutionary cousins—behave in a similar fashion. Santos directs the Comparative Cognition Laboratory (CapLab) at Yale. The CapLab collaborates with researchers across disciplines, from primatology to neurobiology, to investigate the evolutionary origins of human cognition. With ingenious methodological approaches (nonhumans can’t report their thoughts, after all!), Santos and her colleagues investigate the cognitive continuities and discontinuities between humans and our evolutionary ancestors. The CapLab’s work with nonhuman primates, and also canines, asks questions such as: What similarities and differences in nonlinguistic expressions appear across species? Can nonhuman primates understand that others have thoughts that are different from one’s own? Santos’s TED talk on “monkeynomics” has been viewed more than 700,000 times. Bard faculty and students from psychology, biology, economics, anthropology, and other disciplines, as well as community members, were fortunate to hear Santos in Annandale through the Andrew J. Bernstein ’68 Memorial Lecture Series, which is generously supported through an endowment from Sybil Bernstein in memory of her son, Andrew J. Bernstein ’68.

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Hannah Arendt Center The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College has announced four winners of a syllabus competition on “The Enduring Question of Hate in Human Civilization.” Faculty from all Bard campuses and affiliates were invited to submit a 500-word statement outlining how they would craft a liberal arts course on human hatred. The winners: Richard Aldous, Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature, and Professor of English Deirdre d’Albertis on the historical and cultural roots of the hatred in Ireland, and attempts to move beyond it; Ewa Atanassow, Bard College Berlin faculty, on hate in revolutionary France class relations and U.S. race relations during the Revolution and Civil War; Al-Quds Bard faculty members Stephanie Saldana and Rebecca Granato ’99, exploring hatred from early literature to the 20th century; and American University of Central Asia faculty Bermet Tursunkulova, Galina Gorborukova, and Elena Kim, reviewing perspectives on hate through the social sciences. Authors of the accepted proposals receive a stipend to help create a course. They also receive expenses to meet with an international group of Bard faculty to brainstorm on the future study of hate within a liberal arts curriculum. On March 27–28, the second annual Arendt Center/Bard in Berlin conference, “What Europe? Ideals to Fight For Today,” asked: What makes Europe the continent that it is? Is there a common European world? The conference drew on the legacy of philosopher Hannah Arendt to explore the crisis of reactionary populism threatening Europe. Robert Woodruff, senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for fall 2013, cotaught, with Roger Berkowitz, associate professor of political studies and human rights and director of the Arendt Center, “Performing Arendt,” an interdisciplinary course using Arendt’s writings and philosophy in performance projects. Woodruff is one of America’s leading theater Robert Woodruff. photo China Jorrin ’86 directors.

Bill McKibben. photo Steve Liptay BCEP ’11

Activist Bill McKibben Joins CEP Author and climate leader Bill McKibben has joined the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (Bard CEP) advisory board. McKibben, who has penned a dozen books about the environment, made his mark in 1989 with The End of Nature. The groundbreaking book, originally a series of New Yorker articles and subsequently published by Random House, is widely regarded as the first book on climate change for a general readership. McKibben is also a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. “The Bard Center for Environmental Policy is training the kind of leaders we desperately need,” says McKibben, who is Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College. His books include The Age of Missing Information and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is a board member of and contributor to Grist magazine. McKibben has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships and the Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction writing, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Time magazine called him “the planet’s best green journalist,” and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country’s most important environmentalist.”

Al-Quds Bard’s First B.A.s In a long-awaited ceremony, Bard President Leon Botstein shook the hands of the inaugural undergraduate class to earn degrees from the AlQuds Bard Honors College, a four-year liberal arts program leading to a dual B.A. from Al-Quds University and Bard College. Held at the Al-Quds University amphitheater in the West Bank village of Abu Dis, the commencement honored 18 students. Al-Quds President Sari Nusseibeh told the graduates, “Thanks to the exceptional vision of President Botstein and others, the dream has borne fruit.” The ceremony included a beautiful display of Dabka—Palestinian folk dancing. The bachelor’s degrees included economics, human rights, literature and society, media studies, and urban studies and spatial practices. Class valedictorian Anan Abushanab, now pursuing an M.S. degree in refugee studies at Oxford University, to which she won a fellowship, said she “fell in love” with human rights during her liberal arts education. The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Al-Quds Bard, which uses innovative Bard-developed education models to train teachers, also graduated 113 students at the ceremony. Speakers included Botstein, Nusseibeh, and Al-Quds Bard Dean Munther Dajani. 34 on and off campus

Leon Botstein speaks at Al-Quds Bard graduation. photo Ateia Bassa

BPI Paves Path for State Program Almost two decades after the federal and state governments defunded higher education in prison, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo took a public stand in support of college in prison, selecting the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) as the model for establishing transformative educational opportunity. The governor applauded Executive Director Max Kenner ’01 for founding BPI while “a crazy student at a crazy college.” Noting the “audacity” of that endeavor, Cuomo credited BPI with helping transform the purpose of the prison system, reducing recidivism and therefore the costs, both human and economic, of incarceration. “If you have the courage to believe in people and you have the courage to try, you can make a difference in people’s lives,” Cuomo said during the state legislature’s Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Caucus annual weekend conference in Albany earlier this year. Describing a cycle of incarceration in which nearly half of those released from prison return within three years, Cuomo pointed to BPI’s success in breaking that cycle: only 4 percent of those enrolled in BPI and 2.5 percent of those who completed a degree have returned to prison. “It was an ambitious idea,” the governor said. “And you know what happened? It worked.” In the mid-1990s, when governments prevented incarcerated individuals from receiving federal Pell and New York State TAP grants, such college educational opportunity nearly disappeared. Responding to this crisis, BPI began with just a handful of incarcerated students at one prison. Fifteen years and 250 degrees later, it now engages 275 women and men across six medium- and maximum-security prisons, where students who often dropped out of school at a young age excel in a demanding academic environment.

Governor Andrew Cuomo (center) with BPI founder Max Kenner ’01 (left), Erica Mateo ’10, and Anthony Cardenales ’08. photo Darren McGee

of development and public affairs at the Fortune Society, spoke. Martin, who earned his college degree while in prison, said that for him the opportunity of higher education inspired deep, lasting change. “If you want people to critically challenge and reshape the very fabric of their being, you need to give them the

the success of bpi alumni/ae shows what’s possible when leaders and educators are willing to take risks. governor cuomo’s commitment to our work is an example of the college’s impact on public policy and the conviction that we can do better. In prison, as on the main College campus, the Bard curriculum reflects the breadth of the liberal arts and rests on five pillars: the Language and Thinking Program, First-Year Seminar, Moderation, Senior Project, and most recently, Citizen Science. Introduced in 2011 on the Annandale-on-Hudson campus, Citizen Science seeks to promote science literacy and introduce students to methods of evaluating scientific evidence by helping them to develop a core understanding of both the behavior and background of scientific inquiry. This summer, nearly 80 first-year students will take part in Citizen Science on BPI campuses. BPI’s interdisciplinary approach to the natural sciences also includes courses in biology, chemistry, physics, and public health, and, at Woodbourne Correctional Facility, a garden where students studying nutrition, disease prevention, and food justice put theory into practice by growing food on prison grounds. Their organic garden plots are so productive that students donate a portion of the vegetables to local food pantries. “The governor’s commitment will catalyze change not only in New York but across the country,” says Daniel Karpowitz, BPI director of policy and academics. “Leaders are finally taking on the country’s troubling overreliance on prisons. But Cuomo has done so specifically by embracing the kind of rigorous learning characteristic of Bard.” Since 2009, when it established the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison, BPI has been deeply involved in cultivating and supporting new programs that will provide college opportunity in states across the country. Last June, the consortium hosted a national conference at Bard, which included representatives from partner institutions as well as from leading criminal justice and philanthropic organizations. Glenn Martin, then vice president

tools to do so.” He has since founded JustLeadershipUSA with the goal of expanding dialogue and decision making about prison reform to include those people most affected by crime and incarceration. After leaving prison, many BPI alumni/ae go on to further education; they work in the private sector, in social services, and at not-for-profits, often with young people in the neighborhoods where they grew up; and they participate as active and thoughtful citizens in their communities. Erica Mateo ’10, one of two BPI alumni/ae whose recent accomplishments were highlighted by Cuomo, described her experience with BPI as “energizing and exciting—I was hungry to learn more, and curious about the new ideas to which I was being exposed. It was refreshing to rethink the world—when you come from a marginalized neighborhood with limited opportunities and are in prison, you see few possibilities in front of you. My experiences through BPI and the relationships I built opened me to an entirely new way of thinking and living my life.” According to Kenner, BPI is representative of Bard College’s increasing prominence on the national policy landscape. “The work we do is symbolic of Bard’s unique role in American higher education,” he says. “At its core, BPI addresses deep policy failures in both criminal justice and education. Bard’s efforts—in high school early colleges, internationally, in music, and in the prisons—all restore ambitious and meaningful educational opportunities in places where decision makers and educators too often assume we can only fail. The success of BPI alumni/ae shows what’s possible when leaders and educators are willing to take risks. Governor Cuomo’s commitment to our work is an example of the College’s impact on public policy and the conviction that, with courage, we can do better.” on and off campus 35

Family Weekend Festivities Family Weekend and Alumni/ae Day joined forces last fall to create a great weekend of events that brought together Bard students and their families and alumni/ae spanning six decades. All events were open to all, including more than 15 sample classes, student plays, musical performances, and historical and horticultural tours of the campus, Center for Curatorial Studies, and the Blithewood art collection. A faculty roundtable on humanitarian intervention was cosponsored by the Bard Debate Union and Center for Civic Engagement featuring Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities; Michelle Murray, assistant professor of political studies; and Peter Rosenblum, professor of international law and human rights. The Center for Environmental Policy (Bard CEP) held a panel, “How We Feed Ourselves: A Look at Large- and Small-Scale Farming Practices in the United States,” with Kris Feder, associate professor of economics; Jennifer Phillips, professor of environmental science, Bard CEP; and Gidon Eshel, research professor of physics and environmental science. Additional events included a farm-to-table lunch fund-raiser for the Bard College Farm; Moby Dick—Rehearsed, a 1955 play by Orson Welles, performed by Bard students and directed by artist in residence Jonathan Rosenberg; a networking reception to connect international students and alumni/ae with current students; a special Presidential Donor Reception at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts; and a Bard–St. Stephen’s Board of Governors open meeting. President Leon Botstein conducted the American Symphony Orchestra at the Sosnoff Theater in a concert featuring works by Stravinsky, Dorman, and

Physics Professor Matthew Deady (center) with Carter Vanderbilt ’15 (right) and his grandfather, Allen Muesse. photo Karl Rabe

Mendelssohn, and Tim Davis ’91, associate professor of photography, hosted the Alumni/ae Vinyl Lounge at Two Boots. The merger of Family Weekend and Alumni/ae Day was considered a success by all. Alumni/ae had a chance to interact with the newest Bardians, and families were able to meet alumni/ae from all eras. Save the date for this year’s Family Weekend and Alumni/ae Day, scheduled for October 24–26.

Networking through Bard Works

“Batter Up” on Campus

From January 19 to 24, juniors and seniors had the opportunity to focus on life after Bard. Bard Works, a mentor-based, career development workshop held in Annandale and New York City, invited alumni/ae, parents, faculty, and others from diverse fields to help students tackle the daunting transition from collegiate to professional work. The jam-packed week offered workshops, panels, small-group discussions, and individual counseling sessions. Participants received individual mentors, went on mock interviews, practiced public speaking, and edited resumes. One high point was a speechwriting workshop with Brian Murphy, founder of a public affairs company and former special advisor and chief speechwriter for two successive Irish Taoisigh (prime ministers). Jes Gordon ’91, award-winning event producer, author, and television personality, was the keynote speaker, helping students think about ways to turn their creativity and Bard education into a business. Other Bard Works guests included Jesse James ’94, Lisa Newman ’76, Val Nehez ’87, Bjorn Quenomene ’03, and Jamie O’Shea ’03, all of whom had started their own businesses. They described their journeys from Bard to business owners and gave tips on what they looked for in an employee. “I was reminded of the gift of a Bard education,” Nehez said. Tavit Geudelekian ’05 and Joel Clark ’05 told students about how to crowdsource projects; the pair’s recent Kickstarter campaign funded their highly acclaimed literary card game based on Melville’s Moby-Dick. At the Networking Reception at the Harvard Club in New York, students tested their skills with professional alumni/ae and parents. Participating alumni/ae—numbering nearly 75—offered to be contacts for the students, who

Bard College has a new baseball facility—Honey Field, located near the Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer and Lacrosse Complex behind the Stevenson Athletic Center. Crews from Clark Companies of Delhi, New York, are expected to complete construction in May, possibly in time to allow the team to play its final 2014 game at home. An anonymous donor gave $2.2 million for the work, which includes clearing the site; installation of fences, drainage, and artificial turf surface; and construction of dugouts, batting cages, bullpens, and a gravel parking lot. (The Bard College Farm used some of the felled tree limbs to grow mushrooms; others were chipped for use in College landscaping or given away as firewood.) The infrastructure for lighting was also installed this past winter, but the lights, spectator seating, and press box are part of a planned second phase, which will be paid for by donations and fund-raising. Varsity baseball returned to the College last year—after a hiatus of more than 75 years—and the team has been practicing at Red Hook Recreational Park and playing its home games at several stadiums in the area. Men’s soccer player Austin Higgins ’17 has been named to All–Liberty League Second Team, only the College’s second student (and the first freshman) to be honored by the league’s coaches. Women’s soccer team member Neena Marano ’14 has been recognized as All-Liberty League Honorable Mention. And the Bard College men and women’s soccer teams have earned Team Academic Awards from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America for the 2012– 13 academic year. Bard’s men’s team had a cumulative GPA of 3.39, highest among all Liberty League schools. The women’s soccer team had a 3.26 cumu-

came away with a new network of alumni/ae, parents (46 of whom took part), and other professionals on which to draw. Bard Works is a collaboration of Bard’s Center for Civic Engagement, Parents Network, and the Career Development, Alumni/ae Affairs, Dean of Studies, Dean of Students, and Trustee Leader Scholar offices.

lative GPA. Also, the women’s soccer team won a silver team ethics and sportsmanship award from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. The national award recognizes teams that exhibit fair play, sporting behavior, and adherence to the rules of the game, as reflected by the number of yellow caution cards or red ejection cards they are shown by referees throughout the season.

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Images for the Unimaginable: Shlomit Dror ’06 on Raquel Partnoy “On the Side of Justice,” a project spearheaded by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, professor of comparative literature and media studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College, and Nicole Caso, associate professor of Spanish at Bard College, brought three generations of Argentinean Jewish artists to Bard. The women—visual artist and poet Raquel Partnoy; her daughter, writer Alicia Partnoy; and granddaughter, poet Ruth Irupé Sanabria—visited both campuses in March to commemorate International Women’s Day. The women reflected on how they have used the creative resources of writing and painting to process their traumatic personal experiences, as well as to raise awareness about human rights abuses in Argentina and elsewhere. The focus of the event at the Annandale campus was Raquel Partnoy’s employment of both painting—a slide show revealed several images with anguished, haunted faces—and poetry to depict her experience during Argentina’s darkest periods; she published her first book of poems at age 81. Alicia Partnoy’s 1982 book, The Little School, was the first testimonial written in English about the Argentinian civil war; it is still widely read and taught. Sanabria’s The Strange House Testifies (2009) is the first book to poetically document the Argentinian genocide from a child’s point of view. “These women are speaking out in the midst of silence,” Caso told the packed Bitó Auditorium at the Reem-Kayden Center for Science and Computation. Added Sanabria, “So much violence has been done to our country. My grandmother is not going to stop fighting.” Shlomit Dror ’06 visited the indomitable Raquel Partnoy at her Washington, D.C., home and researched the artist’s work as a continuation of her interest in Latin American artists of Jewish descent, on which she wrote her Senior Project (“Reencountering Jewish Identity in Latin America: The Art of José Gurvich, Moico Yaker, and Elena Climent”). Says Dror, “The opportunity to meet Raquel Partnoy offered me an extension of this fascinating subject. She is an example of the increasing canon of Jewish Latin American artists.” In honor of the family’s visit to Bard, Dror here presents a glimpse into Partnoy’s life and work: At Partnoy’s house, I noticed the samovar—which Partnoy inherited from her father and often references in her artwork—placed on a wooden chest. It had belonged to the artist’s paternal grandparents, who migrated from Russia to Argentina in 1913, escaping tsarist oppression. Passed down, this samovar has been in Partnoy’s possession for years and has borne witness to many events: Jewish persecution in Russia, relocation, cultural adaptations, the military dictatorship in Argentina, sorrowful moments as well as joyous ones. Both as a documented object (and subject) in her paintings and as a household item, it is symbolic and iconic, serving solely as a reference to her cultural heritage. While Partnoy was growing up, the samovar also was a display item, which her mother habitually cleaned. She refers to it as “a treasure,” “a witness,” an object that is unused but “keeps my memory alive, remembering how our Jewish people endured injustice and discrimination throughout history.” Like the samovar, the artist’s body of work carries repercussions of both personal and collective experiences. Her grandparents’ resettlement in a foreign land, her Jewish heritage, and haunting memories of her daughter’s abduction by the military, as well as her younger son’s suicide, are some of the subjects in Partnoy’s writing and painting. When we sat down to talk, I noticed her painting El Regazo de los Cuervos (1998), depicting a female figure with an exposed torso—a recurring motif in Partnoy’s work—that conveys the artist’s openness, and at the same time, the vulnerability of being human. The military dictatorship in Argentina (1976–83) created nearly unimaginable suffering for Partnoy. The “disappeared” (a term to describe those who were abducted, some of whom were never found) often appear blindfolded in her paintings, indicating the method of abduction the authorities used to pre-

Vanishing between Tulles, Raquel Partnoy, 1983

vent victims (political prisoners, students, journalists, human right activists) from seeing where they were taken. In The Disappeared (c. 2000), the figures on top are depicted blindfolded. In contrast, the figures at the bottom have distinct facial features, representing people the artist knew personally. “These were my daughter’s friends, who came to our house many times, until they were captured by the military,” Partnoy recalled. “That’s why they aren’t blindfolded. I knew their faces. They were all killed.” The fear of death and death itself are conditions she knows too well. She painted Dancing with the Dead (2000) when she was already living in the United States (she moved here in 1994). It is based on a dream Partnoy had when her daughter, Alicia, was abducted in 1976 by the military. Similar to other young people who fought for social justice, Alicia Partnoy, 20 years old at the time, was considered a threat to state security and was accused of conspiring against the government. For six months she was “disappeared,” detained, and tortured in a concentration camp, during which time her mother did not know whether her daughter was dead or alive; the daughter spent another two-and-half years in prisons. “In the dream,” Partnoy recalled, “I was dancing with her [Alicia] and after a while I saw this face. It was the face of death.” Daniel, the artist’s son who committed suicide, is portrayed in this painting as well as in many other works. He often appears ghostly: a collared shirt without a human figure inside it, “floating” on the surface of the painting—what Partnoy describes as “empty clothes.” The powerful and vivid image (and description) conveys trauma and absence. Partnoy’s expression of fear in her writings as well as her paintings is unnerving, the more so because the fear bears human characteristics. In an essay, “Afraid of the Shadows,” she writes, “Fear became our best friend | He came dressed up as if he were coming to a party | a long heavy silk tunic covered his body . . .”. She prefers to write in English, then translate the text to Spanish, explaining, “This way I have to think more about grammar than about the actual story.” This process represents a momentary survival mechanism, providing her the ability to detach herself, via English, from horrors she experienced in a Spanish context. Partnoy began writing poetry before she became a painter, and has employed it as part of her creative process. At times, she finds the titles of her paintings in her writing. Both disciplines act in tandem, and at times are even unified, according to Partnoy. But whatever the art form, her motivation, she said, is that “I am always looking for new ways to tell what our family and thousands of others endured in my country during the dictatorship.”

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Holiday Party 2013 Yet another new location for the Bard Alumni/ae Holiday Party in 2013: the Broad Street Ballroom, a highceilinged, marble-pillared, elaborately frescoed, former 1920s bank that was filled with almost 500 Bardians—and still there was room to move about. As usual, the most recent class constituted the largest group of alumni/ae: more than a quarter of the Class of 2013 showed up. But Bardians from the Class of 1965 through the 1990s also were on hand to enjoy the fun. This year’s party featured a giant rotating slideshow of photographs from the alumni/ae archives that included reunions, parties, families, faculty, and friends. A festive buffet was served on both sides of the large room. Almost 30 faculty and staff made the trip on the bus from Annandale to reconnect with former students and enjoy holiday cheer in New York City; other faculty arrived on their own. One alumna in culinary school brought a sampling of her miniature macaroons to share, while another, who couldn’t make it at the last minute, donated her hotel room to whomever might need one. The three-hour party ended too soon for some and, for a little while afterward, Bardians could be found in nooks and crannies of the Ballroom. The after-party around the corner was overcrowded, as is often the case, but that made the gathering all the more friendly. If you didn’t get there, keep your calendars open for this year’s Holiday Party in December and celebrate the start of the season.

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ALUMNI/AE REUNION WEEKEND AND COMMENCEMENT MAY 23–25, 2014 Reunion Classes 1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 Come Back to Celebrate Alumni/ae awards, Annandale Roadhouse, American Symphony Orchestra, BBQ, Blithewood, bonfire, Catskills, canoes, community, dancing, degrees, dorms, dinners, diners, education, exhibitions, exploration, fireworks, friends, families, faculty, farms, graduates, grandparents, generations . . . all the way to waterfalls, walks, woods, wisdom, xenogamy, you, and zest. Bardian and Proud. Details at annandaleonline.org/reunions or contact alumni@bard.edu

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Flutist Fanya Wyrick Flax (B.Mus.) performed the Avner Dorman Piccolo Concerto with the American Symphony Orchestra on October 25 and 26 at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Fanya was a winner of the Bard Conservatory 2013 Concerto Competition. | Brandon LaBord joined the Peace Corps Morocco team in January as a youth asset builder in a community 130 miles from Casablanca. His work involves planning and providing workshops on healthy lifestyles, life skills, and employability, as well as teaching English. | Gilbert Ramseur (3+2 BCEP) was working as a Mississippi campaign assistant at the Gulf Restoration Network, and was recently hired at Hilton Head Preparatory School in South Carolina as a science teacher.

Kira Gilman moved to Lander, Wyoming, to work as a global equipment technician for the NOLS Wilderness Medicine Institute. Before that, she worked as a seasonal ecology field technician in northern California and southeastern Oregon.

Claire Brazeau (B.Mus.) won the second-chair oboe and English horn position with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and started her new position in January. She will receive her artist diploma from The Colburn School in the spring. | Emily DeMartino and Camden Segal ’11 were married in August of 2013. They live in Philadelphia. | Laura Jane O’Gorman married Nicholas Pershing Schwartz on July 25, 2013, in Kinsale, Ireland. The couple met during their sophomore year at Bard and currently reside in Singapore, where Laura works as a freelance travel writer and Nick as a cybersecurity specialist. Their travels have taken them to Myanmar, North Korea, and Sri Lanka. | Shelly Rosenberg began teaching Latin and ESOL at Young Women’s College Prep in Rochester, New York.

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’11 Jeremy Carter-Gordon traveled on the Watson Fellowship to study sword dancing in Europe. He was accepted to the EU International Masters Program in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage, where he is pursuing a master’s degree in ethnochoreology. His vocal quartet, Windborne, was selected by American Music Abroad to represent the United States as musical ambassadors. | Camden Segal began work with WebDevStudios as a front-end developer. His first commercial game, Panspermia, is available for iOS and Android devices.

’09 5th Reunion: May 23–25, 2014 Please join the reunion committee of Anna Henchel, Sarah Paden, Amanda Warman, and Dan Wilbur at your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org. Alysha Glenn is director of development for the Bard High School Early Colleges, charged with building the community of support for the schools. Prior to BHSEC, she worked as a major gift fundraiser for Human Rights Watch in New York. | Ryan Gustafson is pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City. Last year, he completed an M.A. in philosophy with a concentration in psychoanalytic theory at the NSSR. He is currently teaching a course called “Gender and Power” at SUNY Purchase. | Ben Kleinbaum has been promoted to associate vice president of Capalino+Company, a government and community relations firm in New York City. | Darif Krasnow, after spending the last few years working as an emergency medical technician, is a first-year medical student at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, California. He encourages Bard students or alumni/ae who are interested in osteopathic medicine to use him as a resource. | Nicole Nummelin and Elias Primoff were married on October 26, 2013, in Roxbury, New York. Both work for Doctors Without Borders.

’08 Alexander Kuc and Francesca Carendi Dobrovolny are happy to announce their engagement. Alexander is in medical school at St. George’s University in Grenada, while Francesca has begun a career in real estate in New York City. | Jessica Loudis is currently an associate editor at Bookforum and one of the editors of Should I Go to Grad School?—an essay collection that will be published by Bloomsbury this year.

’07 Nicholas Risko went on to earn a master’s degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and graduates this year from University of Maryland School of Medicine, specializing in emergency medicine. His love for emergency medicine was kindled at the College as a member of Bard EMS. | Meriel Shire and Alex Rubenstein ’06 are married and living in St. Louis, Missouri, where they are both working on graduate degrees at Washington University. Alex is working toward his master’s degree in social work. Meriel is halfway through a dual-degree master of public health and master of social work program. | Alex Weinstein is serving as a communications officer in the Marine Corps Reserve and has started a new position as a defense consultant at the Pentagon.

’06 Seta Chorbajian holds an M.S. in conservation ecology from the University of Michigan. She and James Detzel became engaged while backpacking in Newfoundland. They live in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where they are employed by the U.S. Forest Service. | Freya Powell recently earned an M.F.A. from Hunter College. She finished her book, Mnemosyne Atlas, an intimate archive of memories. Her video, I’ll smile and I’m not sad, which looks at last statements of inmates in Texas, was shown in Miami at the Emerson Dorsch Gallery. She is joining the faculty at CUNY Queensborough Community College as an adjunct lecturer this fall. | Christie Seaver and Corinne Hoener are happily married and living in Brooklyn, New York. Christie is working toward her master’s degree in social work at Hunter College. Corinne is a software engineer at Tumblr.

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Elias Primoff ’09 and Nicole Nummelin ’09 celebrate their wedding. photo Camille Harris and Alex Fischer

Isak Mendes and Liz Howort were married on the summer solstice. They welcomed their son Walter to the world on October 20, 2013. | Emilie Richardson and Zak Vassar were married on October 19, 2013. Emilie hopes that her fellow Bardians will forgive her for becoming a Vassar. Emilie and Zak live in Toledo, Ohio, where Emilie works as a charter school attorney.

’04 10th Reunion: May 23–25, 2014 Please join the reunion committee of Elizabeth Anderson, Sarah Mosbacher, Caroline Muglia, Ridaa Murad, Kerri-Ann Norton, KC Serota, and Joe Vallese at your reunion in May. For more information, call 845758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org. Yishay Garbasz was the Baengnyeong-do Peace Arts Residency artist from September to November 2013. Her solo show, Ordinary Life in the Shadow of Fukushima, was shown at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts from February to March 2013. | Meredith Kadet earned a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in May 2013. She now serves as director of programs for Episcopal Charities of the Diocese of New York, coordinating funding and support for parish-based outreach programs in New York City and the Hudson Valley region. | Joe Vallese (MAT ’06) joined the Bard Prison Initiative as both faculty and site director for the Taconic Correctional Facility for women in Bedford Hills, New York.

’03 Jon Dilks is coordinator of the ACLU of Pennsylvania’s Bailey Project, monitoring police stop-and-frisk activity in Philadelphia. He also refereed the 2013 WFTDA Women’s Roller Derby Championships in Milwaukee. | Monique Roberts is a staff attorney at the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) in Lake Worth, Florida. Prior to joining HRDC, she worked as counsel for the Democratic majority of the New York State Assembly. Monique is admitted to practice law in New York and Florida. | Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Newark Dean of Students Dumaine Williams was a panelist at the third annual BHSEC Breakfast and Commentary in New York City. The panel examined Bard’s efforts to revitalize science and mathematics education and the College’s role in the national early college movement.

’01 Sasha Rabin Wallinger was named an Environmental Leadership Program National Fellow.

’99 15th Reunion: May 23–25, 2014 Please join the reunion committee of Amy (Foster) Parrella, Sara Handy, Jen Macksoud, Joe Stanco, and Devon White at your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org. Leigh Jenco is an associate professor at the London School of Economics. She lives in London, researching modern Chinese political thought and

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contemporary political theory. | Amanda Snellinger is a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University’s School of Geography and the Environment, where she researches the politics of educated youth unemployment in Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka. Her analysis of Nepal’s second constituent assembly election was recently featured in the Kathmandu Post.

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Timothy Long was director of photography on the film crew of a cultural anthropology expedition to a remote corner of Papua New Guinea, where he visited a tribe of former headhunters who claim to be one of the lost tribes of Israel.

if there are enough classmates participating. “Ingrid Spatt and I are heading the reunion committee and we welcome your suggestions and participation in planning for the reunion. A lot has passed in our 45 years, some significant, some not significant, but it all counts.” If you are interested in coming and/or sharing your suggestions for the event, e-mail her at ellencartledge@comcast.net. | Pierre Joris, poet, translator, and professor emeritus of SUNY Albany, was awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature for his translation of Paul Celan’s The Meridian: Final Version—Drafts— Materials, published by Stanford University Press.

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Rita McBride is the director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany. She is the first American and the second female in 240 years to hold the position.

Stephen Kessler translated Poems of Consummation by Vicente Aleixandre for the Black Widow Press Modern Poetry Series, the work’s first complete translation into English. Kessler is a poet, translator, essayist, editor, and novelist.

Please join the reunion committee of Reginald Bullock, Anne Jennings Canzonetti, Gina (Gonzalez) Collelouri, Diana Gongora, Kim Hoffman, and Sheila Moloney at your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org.

’98 Kate Travers Sexton and her husband, Phillip Sexton, welcomed Sadie Grace Sexton on April 28, 2013.

’97 Jamie Blackman and Maj Padamsee have a daughter, Alia Rúna Blackman, who was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on September 11, 2013.

’94 20th Reunion: May 23–25, 2014 Please join the reunion committee of Ina Calver, Andrew Choung, Nicole de Jesús, Mark Feinsod, Tanya Grice, Amu Ptah, and Peter Ulfik at your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-7587089 or visit annandaleonline.org. Matthew Apple is an associate professor of international communication at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. Multilingual Matters published his book, Language Learning Motivation in Japan, in October.

’89 25th Reunion: May 23–25, 2014 Please join the reunion committee of Ray Brahmi, Jane Brien, Peter Criswell, Tabetha Ewing, Rita Pavone, Steven Sapp, and Adam Snyder at your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-7587089 or visit annandaleonline.org. Jane Brien encourages everyone in the class to come back in May. She says, “I know this is my job, but this really is the big one—25 years—so don’t miss it. Annandale Roadhouse, canoeing, BBQ, reunion, secret Class of 1989 tiki bar, dancing, fireworks, bonfire, party at my house on Sunday. Sign up today.”

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’79 35th Reunion: May 23–25, 2014 Please come to your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org.

’75 Paul Babicki authored NetiquetteIQ: A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance, and Add Power to Your Email, a how-to book on electronic communications. He blogs at http://NetiquetteIQ.blogspot.com and is the founder and president of Tabula Rosa Systems.

’74 40th Reunion: May 23–25, 2014

’67 Larry Simonds has been building custom furniture in Tacoma, Washington, for the past 23 years. Prior to that, he built custom solar homes in upstate New York for 10 years. His work can be seen at www.knotetal.com.

’65 50th Reunion: May 22–24, 2015 Please join the reunion committee of Michael Dewitt, Charlie Hollander, Cynthia Hirsch Levy, and Stan Reichel at your reunion in May 2015. Get involved and make your plans now. Contact alumni@bard.edu or call 845-758-7089 for more information.

Please join the reunion committee of Claire Angelozzi, Laurie and Steve Berman, Jessica Kemm, and Lynn Tepper at your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org.

’69 45th Reunion: May 23–25, 2014 Please join the reunion committee of Ellen Cartledge and Ingrid Spatt at your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org.

’85 Nancy (Zeising) Juretie is a contributor to the anthology, holding on, letting go, by the Oncology Support Program Memoir Group of Kingston, New York. All the writers are touched by cancer, in the past or present.

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Ellen Cartledge reminds everyone that this year the class will celebrate its 45th reunion. “Could it really be that long? Bard is at its most beautiful in the springtime, and I would encourage all to join your fellow classmates at Commencement and Alumni/ae Reunion Weekend,” she says, adding that plans call for dinner at Blithewood on Saturday and perhaps another event at the Alumni/ae House

A group of Bardians got together in February to see Blythe Danner ’65 in The Commons of Pensacola at Manhattan Theatre Club. Back row (L to R): Jane A. Brien ’89; Peter McCabe ’70; Chevy Chase ’68; Delia O’Donnell ’76; Danner; Nilaja Sun, visiting artist in residence; Odile Chilton, visiting associate professor of French. Front row (L to R): Peter Eschauzier ’62; Jonathan Cristol ’00; Arnold Davis ’44; Bruce Chilton ’71, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion. photo Amanda Toronto

’64 50th Reunion: May 23–25, 2014 Please come to your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org.

’61 Patricia Goodheart translated and published under Van Vector & Goodheart via Createspace the 30th anniversary edition of The Words to Say It by Marie Cardinal, which has became a classic in Goodheart’s translation. Her novel, The Translator, will be reissued via Createspace. She divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Saint-Michel-de-Livet, France.

’59 Carolee Schneemann continues to be a preeminent multidisciplinary artist on the subjects of body, sexuality, and gender. Recent exhibitions of her work include a retrospective at the Musée Rochechouart, an exhibition at the WRO Biennial related to a feature film on her life and work titled Breaking the Frame, and an installation in MoMA’s show On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century.

Books by Bardians Tony Ryan: Ireland’s Aviator by Richard Aldous, Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature gill and macmillan Aldous’s biography tells the story of Tony Ryan, who from humble origins rose to enormous financial success in the aviation industry. Losing the lion’s share of his first fortune, he prospered with Ryanair to become one of the wealthiest and most influential men in Ireland.

Von Beethoven zu Berg: Das Gedächtnis der Moderne by Leon Botstein, president of the College and Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities; translated from the English by Sven Hiemke zsolnay-verlag Botstein explores the philosophical questions surrounding the writing of music history, focusing on Vienna and its famous composers— Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, Schoenberg, and Berg. The essays were previously published in collections such as the award-winning Bard Music Festival volumes (Princeton University Press).

Year Zero: A History of 1945

Please come to your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org

by Ian Buruma, Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism penguin press Evoking Asian and European events, this global history of the pivotal year of 1945 traces the reemergence of humanity from devastation into the uncertain postwar world. Buruma weaves into this chronicle of change his own father’s story of reentry into “normalcy” after being seized and held prisoner by the Nazis.

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Reading Dubliners

Leslie Cizek has taught cabinet making at the country’s largest community college, hosted two successful national cable television series on craftsmanship, and spent two years working with James Krenov. With his wife, the writer Norma Watkins, Cizek authored several articles for Home Furniture Magazine and Fine Woodworking. His work has been shown in Treasure Chests and With Wakened Hands.

by Matthew Crain ’85 createspace This collection of essays is a compelling testimony to the personal lessons on storytelling Crain has found in Joyce’s early fiction. Crain offers a passionate and convincing interpretation of almost every detail of Joyce’s Dubliners—including a love letter to a paragraph.

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’44 70th Reunion: May 23–25, 2014 Arnold Davis looks forward to seeing any classmates and friends at this auspicious event in May. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org.

Being Uncle Charlie: A Life Undercover with Killers, Kingpins, Bikers and Druglords by Bob Deasy with Mark Ebner ’82 random house canada As an undercover cop with the Ontario Provincial Police, Deasy infiltrated the biker gang Outlaws Motorcycle Club and the Russian and Italian mobs. The book tells the inside story of a man who gained the acceptance of Canada’s most violent and nefarious criminals.

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Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts ’15 Elizabeth Orr presented Circular Track at Recess in Brooklyn last fall, researching the ways in which choreographed movement constructs narrative and building a tracking shot system to explore how

by Donald Fagen ’69 viking adult In this memoir, Fagen (cofounder of the band Steely Dan) writes vividly about his era. Portraits of the “eminent hipsters” who influenced his youth, an account of his days at Bard in the chapter “Class of ’69,” a hilarious report from a cross-country tour, and other witty pieces gel into an insightful work of cultural criticism.

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representation operates in video, film, and performance while developing a comprehensive historical understanding of the shot. The performance/installation was part of Recess’s residency program, Session.

’14 Sabisha Friedberg and Ben Vida were Artists in Residence at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn in 2013. Each gave a series of performances/ installations of new sound works as part of the residency. | Sadie Laska had a solo exhibition, SAROJANE, at Kerry Schuss gallery in New York last fall. | Claire Wilcox has a new chapbook, Change, Changes and .01 & Change, published by SUS Press.

architectural intervention where Adam removed 24 inches of lower gallery wall; three wooden cube sculptures; a site-specific wall work; and 11 framed photographs depicting a vase of flowers rendered in saturated, tenebrous hues. | Ed Steck’s first book, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation, was released in November by Ugly Duckling Presse. He collaborated with Adam Marnie on The Rose, a book of images and text published by Hassla Books; he wrote the central poem in response to a suite of collages made by Adam. | Jim Zimpel was named assistant professor of sculpture at Montana State University in Bozeman.

’11 ’13 Nathan Baker had two solo exhibitions last fall: Participle at Kavi Gupta in Berlin, Germany, and a show of commissioned works as part of the debut of RH Contemporary Art in New York. | Travis Boyer participated in two small group shows last fall: Spread It On with Matthew Fischer and Marley Freeman MFA ’11 at 247365 in Brooklyn and Precious Burns with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Galerie Fons Welters in Amsterdam. | Harrison Haynes cofounded SiteWork to bring national and international artists together with local artists, with a focus on those whose practices straddle visual art and music. The Raleigh, North Carolina, organization debuted several projects in September 2013, in conjunction with the Hopscotch Music Festival, including Harrison’s solo show No Concert at Lump gallery in Raleigh. | The Dedalus Ensemble, a leading purveyor of contemporary experimental music, performed a new piece by Catherine Lamb at Roulette in New York last September.| Christopher Rey Pérez had Poems from the Story of the Pocho published in issue 6 of the online literary arts journal Paperbag. MFA writing cochair Anselm Berrigan has a poem in the same issue. | Christine Sun Kim, Richard Garet MFA ’11, and Sergei Tcherepnin MFA ’12 were among the 16 artists featured last fall in MoMA’s first major exhibition of sound art, Soundings: A Contemporary Score. Christine gave a presentation about her work in the show, describing her strategy of combining elements of graphic notation, American Sign Language (ASL), text messaging vernacular, and musical notation. She was also named a 2013 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Fellow.

’12 Lucy Dodd’s solo exhibition, Cake 4 Catfish, was on view at David Lewis in New York from November 2013 through January 2014. | Adam Marnie’s solo exhibition, Phantom Limb, was presented at Derek Eller Gallery in New York in fall 2013. It included an

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Shinkoyo Records released Alfredo Marin’s Death to the Infidels in the summer of 2013. He relentlessly blankets noise over heavily multitracked shrieking voices (his own) and abrasive hammering guitars in the monolithic 32-minute work, resulting in a “crushing sense of hopeless abyss.”

’10 Paul Branca had a solo exhibition of paintings, Satin Island, at Scaramouche in New York over the winter. The second edition of his project, The Fruit and Vegetable Stand, showcased work by more than 30 artists and took place in Queens in October. | A. K. Burns had a solo show, Ending with a Fugue, at Callicoon Fine Arts in New York in fall 2013. | Graham Collins presented a solo exhibition at The Journal Gallery in Brooklyn last fall. The exhibition, Civic, featured a new set of paintings and sculpture, part of an ongoing series that combines undressed wooden frames, glass, window tint, and canvas. | Glen Fogel had a solo show of video work, More Recent Video, at Aspect/Ratio in Chicago last fall. He made an online component for the show viewable at www.glenfogel.com/aspectratio and launched a new website, www.glenfogel.com. | Katie Hubbard gave a performance, A thing and its thing-ness. It’s all just nouns and adjectives baby., at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York last October. | Kate Parnell had a solo exhibition of new paintings, OK/KO, in fall 2013 at Court Square in Long Island City, New York.

Hoevenaar, featuring an afterword by Bard MFA writing cochair Anselm Berrigan. American Books was founded by Natalie Häusler MFA ’12, Brett Price MFA ’10, and Ed Steck MFA ’12.

’08 Debra Baxter collaborated with Maggie Carson Romano on the video LIGHT LIGHT, which was on view in Los Angeles last November as part of The Hammer Museum’s Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood.

’07 Jess Arndt read from her prose at St. Mark’s Church in New York last November as part of the Poetry Project’s Friday Night Series. | Chris Curreri’s solo exhibition, Medusa, was on view at Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto from November 2013 through January 2014. | Eric Gottesman explored the relationship between art, politics, risk, and legacy through his revisitation of a controversial Ethiopian novel in One Needs To Listen To The Characters One Creates, a solo exhibition at Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington, D.C., from November 23 through December 23, 2013. | Dale Sherrard gave a TEDx (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk, Technology and Sonic Culture: Do You Hear What I Hear?, at the University of Montana in September. | Chris Sollars presented the first phase of his project Pacific Tackle last fall, the exhibition The Swimmer. It featured photos, videos, and sculptures that intertwine street and sea through endurance actions and the transformation of objects. The exhibition was on view at Steven Wolf Fine Arts in San Francisco. | Jonathan VanDyke had his first solo exhibition in Italy at Galleria 1/9unosunove in Rome. The show borrowed its title from Antonioni’s 1948 documentary short, Oltre l’oblio, in reference to this transformative process of looking or traveling “over the oblivion,” a notion that persists throughout VanDyke’s new paintings, sculptures, photographs, and video.

’06 Elisa Lendvay had a solo show at Fred.Giampietro Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. Moon of the Moon was on view during November and December 2013.

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DoPe Press published a book about K8 Hardy’s work, How To: Untitled Runway Show. The book focuses on the performance/runway show she gave as part of the 2012 Whitney Biennial. She also had a solo show, KATE, at Reena Spaulings Fine Art in New York last November and December. | In November, American Books released its first book, Cold Mountain Mirror Displacement, by Jeremy

Lyn Goeringer released a limited edition vinyl LP album that includes eight new tracks and original print work by Graham McDougal. The album can be purchased or downloaded at http://lyngoeringer.bandcamp.com. | Wynne Greenwood showed her video and sculptural work last fall in More Heads, a solo exhibition at Soloway in Brooklyn.

’04 JD Walsh had a solo exhibition, Room Tone, at Sardine in Brooklyn last October.

Foraging and Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook

Isaac Diggs collaborated with Edward Hillel on an exhibition of large format photographs, 125th: Time in Harlem, at Claire Oliver in New York last fall.

by Dina Falconi ’87, illustrated by Wendy Hollender botanical arts press Combining Falconi’s passion for wild-plant identification, foraging, and cooking with Hollender’s botanical illustration, this book is an invaluable reference for reaping the Hudson Valley’s wild bounty and unusual edibles.

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Corona: Selected Poems of Paul Celan

Insurance Editions released two new chapbooks by MFA alumni/ae last fall: Some of My Reasons by Kostas Anagnopoulos and Adventure Club by Ann Stephenson MFA ’08.

translated from the German by Susan H. Gillespie, vice president for special global initiatives and founding director, Institute for International Liberal Education station hill of barrytown This bilingual collection of 103 poems charts an intimate journey through Celan’s impressive oeuvre, including lesser-known work from all of the great poet’s stages and genres. Gillespie’s translations pay close attention to the “somatic” and rhetorical aspects of Celan’s poems.

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’94 Kim Krause was appointed cochair of the Studio Program, Art Academy of Cincinnati. His solo exhibition, Slide, was at the Fitton Center for the Arts in Hamilton, Ohio, from December 2012 through February 2013. Two of his paintings were selected for the purchase award at the 56th Mid-States Art Exhibition. Kim is represented by Marta Hewett Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. kimkrauseartist.com

’93 Adam Simon initiated and participated in the group exhibition Burying the Lede at Momenta Art in Brooklyn in September and October 2013. The exhibition focused on working artists whose engagement with the material and content of newspapers gives us a window on its changing status.

’89 Lily Prince had an exhibition of her paintings, Here, There and Everywhere, at the James W. Palmer Gallery at Vassar College in fall 2013.

Bard Center for Environmental Policy ’13 Karen Corey is working as a field-based recruiter for the Peace Corps and as an independent consultant for Forest Trends. She completed her M.S. in environmental policy as part of the Master’s International Program at Bard CEP. | Taylor Evans is a staff scientist for Nova Consulting, contracted as a consultant for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. | LeAnne Harvey is working at Human Impacts Institute on their “Creative Climate” Salon Series. In partnership with the Transatlantic Climate Bridge Program of Germany, the tour covers eight U.S. cities and Berlin to highlight local action,

Nach dem Krieg!—Nach dem Exil? Erste Briefe/First Letters edited by David Kettler, Research Professor in Social Studies, and Detlef Garz text+kritik This study, published in German, looks at the first postwar letters between prominent exiled intellectuals of the Weimar Republic and those who stayed behind in Nazi Germany. It focuses on exile as a political phenomenon, and its implications.

Under the Sign by Ann Lauterbach, David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature penguin In her new collection, Lauterbach probes the nature of language, worldly attachment and inner life, information and knowledge. These poems possess the sensuality and intelligence that have established Lauterbach as one of America’s most innovative contemporary poets.

The Revolution of Every Day by Cari Luna ’95 tin house books Selected as Book of the Week by O and Oprah.com, Luna’s debut novel centers on a band of idealistic squatters in an abandoned building on New York’s Lower East Side. Big lawyers and developers threaten the motley crew’s precarious existence with eviction, while group members deal with their own betrayals.

C. P. Cavafy: Complete Poems translated from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn, Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities knopf Modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933) breathed life into Mediterranean antiquity and broke taboos of homoerotic desire in his explorations of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity. The culmination of more than a decade of work, Mendelsohn’s translation includes Cavafy’s final, unfinished poems in English for the first time.

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resources, and solutions to climate change. She is also working with SCALE, a consulting group, on local food pricing research. | Marianna Hunnicutt is now working for Kimley–Horn & Associates in Las Vegas as a land development analyst. She works primarily on the land development team in the civil engineering group, but recently has started work in transportation engineering and traffic safety. | Kendall Lambert is the water program coordinator for Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), which develops sustainable agriculture and local food systems in California. She developed and manages an outreach and education program for wine-grape growers regarding water stewardship techniques and hopes to expand to provide technical assistance to growers of other crops. | As an energy policy associate with the Pace Energy and Climate Center, Nick Martin works on economic, regulatory, and legal issues related to the development and deployment of microgrids and other distributed generation technologies such as combined heat and power, district energy, and renewables in the Northeast United States. | Christine Pizzuti is currently working as an adjunct journalism professor in the Communication and Media Department at SUNY New Paltz. | Maggie Yayac is a staff scientist at ERM, a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, and social consulting services. Maggie works on the natural resources team, where she helps Verizon Wireless communication towers meet NEPA standards.

’12 Michael Bernstein is currently a research analyst for BCS, Inc., working with the U.S. Department of Energy on bioenergy and energy reliability. | Jamie Wilson is still at ERM, supporting both international and domestic projects primarily for the oil and gas industry. She has recently been focusing on permit application submittals for agencies such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and relevant state environmental agencies.

(energy efficiency, economics) and measures the efficiencies and economic performance of existing systems. | Prapti Bhandary works at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Environment and Production Technology Division and coauthored three papers related to the future of global food economy and challenges for development. They appeared in the Oxford University Press, Agricultural Economics, and IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report. | Cody Mellot is the executive team lead of logistics for East Liberty Target in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was recently promoted from senior team lead of hardlines at the Cranberry Township store. | Brent Miller was promoted to Northeastern states director for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation. Brent, who joined CSF in August 2010, most recently served as Northeastern states manager, where he was instrumental in establishing the Maine Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus and New York Sportsmen’s Advisory Council, and in reorganizing and strengthening several additional state legislative sportsmen’s caucuses. | Shaylah Reagan got married on August 31 to Christopher Peppel in Cortland, New York.

’10 Lindsay Chapman has accepted a position as Beloit College’s newly created sustainability coordinator. | Kaleena Miller has been director of the Energy Corps program for a year, overseeing 40 AmeriCorps members in five states. The program promotes energy conservation and renewable energy through community education events and weatherization of low-income homes.

’09 Jaclyn Harrison announces her newest personal accomplishment—the birth of her son, Alexander William Jeffery Geiwitz, on October 9, 2013, at 1:05 p.m.; he weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces, and was 21.5 inches long. | Hilary Anja Tanke is working as a recovery specialist for Green Door Core Service Agency in Washington, D.C.

opportunities in Kingston, New York, so that residents can lead healthier lives.

Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ’11 Luke Baker writes about and organizes exhibitions on art, design, and visual and material culture and is on the curatorial staff within the department of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art. His writing has been published in The Magazine Antiques, Modern, Metalsmith, The Studio Potter, Art Papers, Outpost Journal, and Inside/Out, MoMA’s blog. | Christian Larsen has accepted the position of curator at Wolfsonian-Florida International University, where he will focus on Latin American material culture and, in particular, Brazil.

’06 Daniella Ohad Smith’s essay, “Yaron Elyasi, a Vision of Sustainability,” was published in Hiatus, Black on White: Opinions and Reflections about Design. Daniella also was an expert for the chapter “Art & Culture” for Karen Amster-Young and Pam Godwin’s book, The 52 Weeks.

’04 Jennifer Scanlan is curating three exhibitions: at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City in June, tentatively titled Back to Eden: Contemporary Artists Explore the Garden; lighting design in glass for the new gallery at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, to open this spring; and on Israeli tapestry artist Sasha Stoyanov, to open in fall at 108 Contemporary in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

’98 Julia Gorzka Freeman has taken a new position as development officer at the Tampa Museum of Art.

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Vanessa Arcara works at 350.org, where she assists its cofounder and chairman, Bill McKibben, and works with staff to create effective campaigns that fight the climate crisis. She also works with Food Systems Network NYC to promote policy solutions that improve food access, the regional food and farm economy, and public health. | Tim Banach is senior analyst for GI Energy, a developer specializing in providing clean energy solutions, mostly onsite geothermal and combined heat and power systems. Tim works in the analytics group, which models systems before development

Steve Sarno recently left the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take a job with the environmental law firm of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., in San Francisco. His work focuses on federal litigation under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and hazardous waste laws. | Kristen Wilson works at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, now as the Live Well Kingston coordinator. Live Well Kingston is a coalition of organizations, businesses, and individuals that work together to improve the environment, culture, and

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’13 Cora Fisher coedited Living Labor with Milena Hoegsberg CCS ’08. The anthology with commissioned texts explores the encroachment of work on nonwork life, the ubiquity of flexible labor, and artistic and activist forms of refusal against the increasing subordination of life to work (Sternberg Press). Cora also was appointed curator of contemporary art at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (secca.org). | Karly Wildenhaus has relocated to London to join Zak Group, a

collaborative practice to explore the possibilities for design in the production of culture.

’12 Jenny Jaskey has been named curator of the Artist’s Institute in New York, where her 2013–14 exhibitions include Lucy McKenzie and Pierre Huyghe.

’09 Kate Menconeri curated Eastern Standard Time— Indirect Lines to the Hudson River School, a citywide exhibition of site-specific works in Catskill, New York, and On Time & Place, a traveling exhibition for Scenic Hudson’s first 50 years. She was assistant curator for the traveling exhibit Albert Bierstadt in New York & New England.

’04 Elizabeth Zechella is the assistant managing editor in the editorial department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

’03 Robert Blackson, director of Temple Contemporary, is undertaking A Funeral for a Home. This public artwork involves arranging a funeral (including demolition) of a vacant Philadelphia row home. | Ingrid Chu recently cocurated several exhibition and artist book commissions through Forever & Today, Inc.; participated in the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writing Workshop; and reviewed the Sharon Lockhart/Noa Eshkol exhibition for frieze magazine. | Kelly Taxter was recently named assistant curator at the Jewish Museum, where she will work with Jens Hoffmann on contemporary exhibition programming. She edited You Should’ve Heard Just What I Seen, a publication that explores the intersections of contemporary art and music, published by Gregory R. Miller & Co.

’02 Luiza Interlenghi curated Desenlace—Teresa Serrano e Miguel Angel Rìos at Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in which the ties that bind opposites in relationships of domination become visible.

’01 Dermis P. León was included in Utopias, an anthology edited by Richard Noble and copublished with Whitechapel Gallery. She also cocurated the exhibition Politics: I do not like it, but it likes me at the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland.

Transgressive Fiction: The New Satiric Tradition by Robin Mookerjee ’84 palgrave macmillan This book of literary criticism takes a fresh look at transgressive fiction by writers such as Kathy Acker, Bret Easton Ellis, Martin Amis, Angela Carter, and Irvine Welsh. Mookerjee traces their influences as far back as Ovid, identifying their subversive styles as successors to classic satire intertwined with contemporary postmodern discourses.

Just War in Religion and Politics edited by Jacob Neusner, Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism; Bruce Chilton ’71, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; and R. E. Tully university press of america These essays, companions to a West Point–Bard Exchange conference, examine theories of “just war” from the perspectives of religious studies and the social sciences. The book contains chapters by various Bard faculty members as well as U.S. Military Academy at West Point scholars.

Rhythm for Sale by Grant Harper Reid ’76 createspace Born in Alabama, Leonard Harper (1888–1943) began his career as a 4year-old dancing for pennies and food, and went on to transform the history of American musical theater. Researched and written by Harper’s grandson, this book tells the fascinating saga of one of the greatest producer-director-choreographers of the Harlem Renaissance.

Plutarch: Lives That Made Greek History edited by James Romm, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics, and Pamela Mensch hackett publishing This volume presents texts from 15 biographies in Plutarch’s Lives, one of the few primary sources on life in ancient Greece. The selections shed light on the central historical themes of classical times: warring among Athens, Sparta, and Thebes; the rise of Macedon; and tensions with the Achaemenid Persian empire.

Archipelago by Alana Siegel ’07 station hill of barrytown Archipelago delves into the origins of language, creating a complete world by interweaving the threads crafted by artists, poets, mystics, and the discourses of philosophy, history, science, and religion. Siegel uses the raw materials of dreams and etymologies for her work that recall poet Robert Duncan’s “collagist’s art.”

The Best American Sports Writing 2013 edited by Glenn Stout ’81 and J. R. Moehringer mariner books Since 1991, Stout has been series editor of this volume, choosing notable works from more than 350 publications and blogs for final selection by a guest editor. This edition’s guest editor, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Moehringer, includes pieces by 2011 Bard Fiction Prize winner Karen Russell, Mark Singer, and others.

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’00 Mercedes Vicente has relocated to London. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Royal College of Art and Darcy Lange Curator-at-Large at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand.

’96 Regine Basha curated a 10-year survey of Paul Pfeiffer’s work at the Blanton Museum of Art: University of Texas at Austin; worked with Michael Rakowitz on “Dar al Suhl” in Dubai; curated a project with Nina Katchadourian for Testsite/Austin; and was curatorial advisor to Queens Museum and Museum of Arts and Design, New York. bashaprojects.com | Sydney O. Jenkins lectured at Yale University about art critic and poet Selden Rodman. His essay, “Preexisting Conditions for Reception,” was included in KAFOU, published by Nottingham Contemporary.

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In Memoriam ’49 Janet (Stearns) Eisenhauer, 86, died on June 27, 2013, in Annapolis, Maryland, of natural causes. She was born in Keene, New Hampshire. She attended Bard before marrying her first husband, Robert L. Couse, eventually settling in South Nyack, New York. She obtained an M.S.W. from Long Island University. She worked for many years as a drug and alcohol counselor, and was a lifelong member of the Unitarian church and a committed social activist. She was also deeply involved in the local McGovern presidential campaign. She loved classical music and reading, and was passionate about many causes. She was predeceased by her brother Allen, who died in World War II, and by her oldest son Allen. Eisenhauer is survived by her current husband, Raymond; sister Lois Ann Stearns; children Jonathan Couse, Tobias Couse, Daniel Couse, Tillson Couse, Jennifer Feiertag, Timothy Francis, and Alexander Francis; ten grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

’13 Abigail Levis won the 2013 Classical Singer Competition in the Young Artist Division at the Classical Singer Convention in Boston in May. Abigail, who is from Maine, studied voice with Edith Bers during her time at Bard.

’11 Baritone Jeongcheol Cha participated in the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. After graduating from Bard, he completed an artist diploma in opera studies at The Juilliard School. He is represented by Columbia Artists Management.

’09 Soprano Rie Miyake sang the role of Gretel in a recent production of Hansel and Gretel at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in Japan. Rie studied with Lorraine Nubar while at Bard College.

’52 Paul Seligman, 82, died on November 21, 2013. Born in Manhattan, he lived in the Morristown, New Jersey, area for the past 28 years. A veteran of the Korean War, he obtained an M.B.A. from New York University. He was a systems analyst for the Securities Industry Automation Corporation, and before that held posts at IBM and numerous brokerage firms. Seligman was a dedicated researcher and writer and his passion was to understand the macroeconomic forces that gave rise to moves in the stock market. Predeceased by his brother, Daniel, and sister, Susan Cohn, survivors include his wife, Constance (Allentuck); daughters Emily and Ann Seligman-Starr; son James; and grandchildren Jad and Adam.

’55 William Crawford III died October 13, 2012.

Master of Arts in Teaching ’08 New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo named Colleen Bucci, a biology teacher in the Hyde Park Central School District, as one of New York State’s first master teachers. They work closely with preservice and early career educators to help create a supportive environment for the next generation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers.

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Jeanne “Nina” (Pridday) Jolliffe, 82, of Manlius, New York, died at home on August 17, 2013. She was born in White Plains, New York, and grew up in Scarsdale. She attended Marymount Manhattan and Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, and was an avid horsewoman and the centerpiece of the Limestone Creek Hunt Club, New York. A long-standing communicant of St. Ann’s Church, Manlius, she took great solace and pride in her faith. Jolliffe is survived by her husband, John “Jack”; children Laurel, Georgina, and Carey; and granddaughters Jilian Kimball and Pridday JolliffeBuyce.

’64 Linda Ruth Kleban, 72, died on January 8, 2012. She lived in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. Her passions included photography, painting, and writing. Survivors include her son, Jonathan Kleineman.

’67 Steve Horvath died on February 13, 2014. The devoted husband of Janice Baker ’70, he was an adventurer and world traveler, founder of the private consulting service Research and Assistance Network, and long-time member of the Zen Mountain Monastery congregation.

’71 Theodore “Ted” L. Cheslak, 64, died on July 4, 2013, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of complications following transplant surgery. Born in New Jersey, he graduated from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He served in the Peace Corps in Kenya in the 1970s. An American naturalist philosopher in spirit, he found his intellectual home studying philosophy at Bard with Bill Lensing, who was professor of philosophy from 1949 to 1981. A development banker and an attorney, Cheslak was happiest hunting, fishing, canoeing, and rock collecting. A lifelong seeker, thinker, and dreamer, he considered himself a citizen of the world. His bedside companions were Aristotle and Santayana. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth (Stanislaw) ’73; sons Benjamin, Cyrus, and Samuel; sister Virginia; and brother Albert.

’75 John J. Curran, 59, died on July 5, 2013. Curran graduated from Bard with a degree in languages and literature. He was former editor of Mutual Funds Magazine and a veteran financial journalist at Fortune, NBC, and Bloomberg. In addition to investing coverage, Curran wrote about international economics, for which he received an Overseas Press Club of America award in 1988 for his coverage of Japan. In 2001 he received a Time Inc. Luce Award for commissioning and publishing a story on the threat of global terrorism coming to America’s shores. Curran is survived by his widow, Joan; and children Alissa, Alexandra, Joanna, and John Richard Curran. Robert “Ron” R. Wilson died on September 12, 2013, in Tustin, California. A writer, avid photographer, actor, athlete, husband, father, and grandfather, Wilson insisted on celebrating life ever since doctors told his mother that his constant ill health—he was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome as a child—would prevent him from living past the age of 30. Born in New York City, he attended Bard

through the Higher Education Opportunity Program, majoring in literature. He was an active member of the Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors, even after his retirement from his position as assistant vice chancellor and director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity at University of California, Irvine. He was also a national figure in mediation and ombudsmanship, and a frequent speaker on many topics, including conflict resolution. Wilson loved Bard and loved working with students. He embraced diversity and did all he could to insure equal opportunity for all. Survivors include his wife, Carol; a son, Jascha; daughters Shanta (Ace) and Alina; and new granddaughter Naya Mercedes.

’76 Douglas B. Wright, 60, died on July 1, 2013, at his home in Key West. He was born in Washington, D.C. Throughout his career, Wright held management positions in the food, beverage, and hospitality industries. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and professional organizations including the local Tourist Development Council and the Key West Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife, Luz M. Armendariz; his son, Thompson B. Wright; and a brother, Jonathan Wright.

’93 Stephen Moyer, 44, of Northfield, New Jersey, died on September 1, 2013. He was born in Somers Point, New Jersey, and attended Rochester Institute of Technology. At Bard, he majored in film. He lived in North Carolina before moving to Machias, Maine. He worked as a gardener and attended St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church in Machias. He devoted himself to helping others, whether shoveling snow off the church steps, taking care of family members, or weeding his parents’ garden. He is survived by his parents, Jim Moyer and Claire Kreutz Moyer; brother Robert “Bob”; brother David; sister Jennifer; three nephews; and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.

’95 Barbara Nell Hunt, 60, died on August 30, 2013, in Chicago. She studied literature and writing, earning a B.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. She twice attended the writing program at Banff School of Fine Arts; acquired a master’s in library science from Syracuse University, specializing in special collections of art and literature; and earned her M.F.A. from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. She helped manage the Book Project, a literary bookstore in Seattle, and was a librarian at Brown University and Chicago Public Library. She is

survived by her mother, Lola; brother Mark; two aunts; several cousins; and friends in Chicago and on the East and West Coasts.

’99 Elissa Nelson, 37, died on October 30, 2013, in Portland, Oregon. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University, and a master’s in education from Brooklyn College. Her stories and essays were published in magazines, journals, and anthologies; her zines are archived in several college and community zine libraries. She was editing her first novel. A born teacher, she had a special interest in both highly talented and struggling students. She was predeceased by her father, Charles; and is survived by her mother, Margaret; sister Emilyn; and a devoted extended family.

’06 Jonah Adels, 29, died on October 2, 2013, succumbing to injuries sustained in an accident. After finishing his Bard degree in film and electronic arts, he began a master’s program at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He served on the New Haven Food Policy Council, and the Yale Sustainable Food Project. He was the inspiration behind the first Yale Food Systems Symposium, which was dedicated to him. He founded and participated in groups that protested against hydrofracking, and took part in 2012 Keystone XL pipeline protests. He brought his deep love and knowledge of permaculture to children and teens at Eden Village Camp, a Jewish organic farm in Putnam Valley, New York. Survivors include his mother, Stacey Meadows; father Peter Adels; and brothers Sam and Gabe ’14.

attended New Trier Township High School, and belonged to the Children’s Theatre of Winnetka, the school choir, and the girls’ chorus. McCausland played violin in kindergarten and taught herself banjo, ukulele, guitar, and piano. In high school she traveled to Australia, helped build a house in Cuba, and taught herself Icelandic. Friends recall an independent, down-to-earth thinker who stood up for her beliefs and whose voice was remarkable. At Bard, she studied anthropology and linguistics. “Sarah was a multitalented, beautiful human being. She loved music, learning, and had a passion for life,” her family said in a statement. Survivors include her parents, Sandra and Andy, and a sister, Tori.

Faculty Richard B. Clarke, 80, associate professor of biology from 1964 to 1972 and research fellow at Bard from 1972 to 1974, died on August 9, 2013. In addition to biologist and professor, he filled many roles in his life, including psychotherapist, corporate consultant, trainer, and poet. He was the founder of the Living Dharma Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he was a Zen teacher for more than 30 years. He published two books of poetry, among other works.

’17 Evelina “Lina” Martin Brown, 20, died in an accident on January 31, 2014. She was born in Seattle, Washington, and attended Garfield High School. In between high school and college, she took a gap year and traveled the world, spending time in Ghana, backpacking in New Zealand and Australia, and working as an au pair in Spain over the summer. Friends describe her as a “quiet rock, wise beyond her years,” easygoing and warm, with a “great sense of humor” and a “terrific smile.” A studio arts major with eclectic taste in music, she was just beginning to discover her voice as an artist, and carried a sketch pad everywhere. Survivors include her parents, Patreese Martin and Josh Brown, and a brother, Sullivan. Sarah McCausland, 19, died in an accident on January 31, 2014. Born in Winnetka, Illinois, she

Bernard Tieger. photo Courtesy of Helene Tieger ’85

Bernard “Bernie” Tieger, 84, professor emeritus of sociology, died on January 20, 2014, after a long illness. His overriding love was the community, and the community loved him back. He both advanced its role and served it during his tenure at Bard, and also later, when he assumed the mantle of historian and bookseller in Tivoli, his home for more than 45 years. In 2012, he published Tivoli: The Making of a Community, a definitive history of the village. Raised in the Bronx during the Depression, he worked for the New York Central Railroad and became active in the labor movement. He attended City College

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and New York University, while also driving a taxi to support his family. Strongly influenced by the work of American Marxist Granville Hicks and his seminal work Small Town, Tieger found his life’s work in studying small town life. He began teaching sociology at Bard in 1967, and moved to Tivoli, serving on many of its boards. In 1972, while on the Village Board, he spearheaded the three-day Tivoli Centennial, which later became the annual Tivoli Day. Recalls Stuart Stritzler-Levine, emeritus dean of the College and professor emeritus of psychology, “Bernard was a good-humored individual and yet often exaggeratedly serious. He was slow walking and talking, with a quick mind, and seemingly never got tired. The champion of a village is gone and the village is better for his having been there.” Through his teaching and by example, he challenged his students to view societal conditions through an academic lens while not relinquishing their responsibility to participate in the process of

William Fense Weaver, 90, one of the great translators of contemporary Italian literature and a beloved professor of literature at Bard College, died on November 12, 2013, in Rhinebeck, New York. The cause was complications from a stroke. His life was filled with high art, exceptional achievements, and the love and admiration of his many friends, students, and colleagues. “He was a dominant personality on campus from 1992 to 2002,” said College President Leon Botstein. “The list of Italian writers he brought to the English reading public is nothing short of astonishing. His contribution to the literary and cultural life of the College was extraordinary.” During his long career Weaver translated the best of modern Italian fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and prose, and helped to bring the art of translation out of obscurity and give it literary credence and recognition. He was perhaps best known for his 1983 translation of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the

taught himself Italian and discovered his love for both translation and opera. Weaver’s work ethic and dedication to details were legend. He was obsessed with finding the perfect word to convey in English the exact meaning intended by an Italian author. He told the Paris Review in 2000, “A lot of our time is spent assaying the difference between words that seem alike, like desk and writing table. What do you see when someone says ‘writing table,’ and what do you see when someone says ‘desk,’ and when would you use one and when would you use the other? The problem exists, but the solution does not. Then you’re on your own.” In her blog, Translationista, Susan Bernofsky, assistant professor of German at Bard from 1998 to 2005, said, “I think it’s not much of an exaggeration to say that for a period of several decades pretty much every novelist in Italy wanted to be translated by him. And he turned out a staggering quantity of

bringing about change. “If he could seem gruff or terse, there was always the light of mischief in his eyes reassuring you to persist in whatever endeavor he was challenging,” says Christopher Pryslopski ’97. “I am grateful to have met and studied with Bernie Tieger, grateful to him for the knowledge and example that he shared with his students and his community, and proud to say that he has inspired me to continue such work and habits.” Tieger also launched the University Without Walls Program with colleagues Irma Brandeis, then professor of literature, and Frank Oja, professor of psychology. The program eventually became the Continuing Studies Program of the College. Colleague Suzanne Vromen, professor emeritus of sociology, recalls, “Bernie was always a skeptic, sometimes even a rebel. His heart was in being a problem solver, applying his sociological knowledge to practical issues. He did not suffer fools gladly, nor hypocrites. His sharp wit would cut calmly and mercilessly into pretension or pose or obfuscation. Toward his students he was both supportive and demanding, spurring them on to think clearly and logically. The adults returning to college in the Continuing Studies Program also received his total devotion. He had much sympathy for them, assessed their potential, helped them develop their abilities, and basked in their successes.” Richard Gordon, research professor and professor emeritus of psychology, remembers Tieger in later life: “As the proprietor of the bookstore, he became notably more mellow, though the intellect was still as sharp as ever.” Survivors include his wife of 30 years, Patricia “Trish” Laub Tieger ’81; his five children, Toby Tieger, Helene Tieger ’85, Daniel Tieger ’75, Kari Tieger Brennan, and Rachel Tieger (Simon’s Rock ’83); and several grandchildren.

Rose, a medieval mystery that was first published in Italian in 1980 and went on to sell millions of copies worldwide. Weaver also translated Alberto Moravia, Eugenio Montale, Oriana Fallaci, Ugo Moretti, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Svevo, and Italo Calvino. He translated a dozen books by Calvino alone, including a collection of short stories, Cosmicomics, for which Weaver won a National Book Award for translation in 1969. Jedediah Berry ’99, visiting assistant professor of written arts at Bard, said in a remembrance on his blog, “To hear him describe it, his relationship with Calvino was occasionally tempestuous, but the two clearly loved and respected one another. Italo, he said, once presented him with a print of Saint Jerome, and inscribed it to him with the words: ‘To Bill, translator as saint.’ I have often cited Calvino as a major influence on my work, but William Weaver’s influence is no less profound.” Weaver also translated librettos by Verdi and wrote about opera, including a history, The Golden Century of Italian Opera From Rossini to Puccini, and a biography of Eleonora Duse, the great Italian actress of the 19th and early 20th century. He frequently wrote about Italy for the New York Times, and was a radio commentator on broadcasts by the Metropolitan Opera. Weaver was born in Washington, D.C., one of five children, and spent much of his early life in Virginia. His father was the official recorder of debates for the Congressional Record. Weaver went to Princeton, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, he left to join the American Field Service as an ambulance driver, even though he was a pacifist (as a driver, he wasn’t allowed to carry a gun). He spent the war in Africa, then Italy, falling in love with the latter. He returned to Princeton and graduated, then taught for a year at the University of Virginia before returning to Italy, where he

books, which I find particularly astonishing given the fact that I never saw him working, or displaying even the faintest hint of stress.” As a Southerner, he also had the gift of the gab and was a great raconteur. “He was one of the kindest and most generous people I’ve ever met, especially with his students, on whom he lavished seemingly infinite quantities of attention,” said Bernofsky. She recalled how he liked to sit with his guests on the broad front porch of his house on the Bard College campus [which is now the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities— previously occupied by writer Mary McCarthy, also a great friend of Weaver’s], enjoying the predinner hour, “very much the Southern gentleman with his exuberant hospitality and love of storytelling.” According to President Leon Botstein, “His choice to teach at Bard upon returning to the United States was a sign of respect and affection for the College.” Weaver’s longtime partner, Japanese architect Kazuo Nakajima, died in May 2013. No immediate family members survive.

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Staff Shirley Day, 74, who worked in a number of capacities at Bard, most recently as cashier of the Green Onion Grocer on campus, died on October 27, 2013. A lifelong resident of the area, she served the Bard community for nearly 30 years, beginning in housekeeping, then working in dining services. Survivors include her children, Carol, Robert, Timothy, Brian, and Sean; 17 grandchildren; a brother, Nelson; and a sister, Irene; along with nieces, nephews, and countless friends. She was predeceased by her husband, Robert; a sister, Maryann Miller; and a brother.

In Memory of Natalie Lunn Natalie Lunn (1937–2013) was a friend and mentor to generations of Bard students. A testament to her influence came when more than 100 members of her sprawling extended “family” gathered at the Rhinecliff Hotel to celebrate her 75th birthday; some of the remembrances collected on that occasion appear below. As technical director of the Drama/Dance Department (1972–99), and later an adjunct professor, Lunn shared her passion for the joys, complexities, and rigors of technical theater, as well as her love of coffee, scotch, and Scrabble. Her Tewksbury-adjacent apartment served as second home, refuge, and gathering spot for students, faculty, and alumni/ae. But Natalie Lunn’s legacy is much more than that. She was the matriarch of a clan that she willfully and yet almost unconsciously brought into being—a community spanning almost three decades that reached far beyond graduation. In this family, all were loved, supported, and celebrated for being their own quirky, glorious, flawed selves. —Maud Kersnowski Sachs ’86 I can’t remember when we met, but I remember a Valkyrie: sky-high in height and presence, tight salt-and-pepper curls—at a time when no woman wore her hair gray—and a no-bullshit attitude worn like expensive perfume. —Pam (Villars) Richards ’75 She was amazing—a tall woman with that shocking white hair who was as comfortable shimmying up a ladder to hang lights as she was laying out the place settings for a formal dinner. She was my role model and many times throughout my career when I was creatively stuck, I would think, “What would Nat do?” —Roberta Powell Esposito ’74 The Natalie I remember swings a mean Skilsaw and stitches seams straight as an arrow. The Natalie I remember has arms like a Hindu deity, with a different tool in each hand—hammer, paintbrush, glue gun, drill, screwdriver. The Natalie I remember is the surrogate Mom of the motley troupe who converged on the Bard Theatre of Drama and Dance. —Charles “Bud” Ruhe ’79 Theater was the center of my college experience, and at that center stood Natalie Lunn: threading a needle with a wry smile and a raspy chuckle in the costume shop; striding across Tewksbury lawn, Ginny, her part–Irish wolfhound, trotting ahead; or delicately placing Scrabble pieces, accompanied by the clink of ice cubes, laughter, and shop talk well into early morning. —Tena Cohen ’88 She generously offered a necessary sanctuary whose comfy sofas and chairs, more often than not, contained bodies taking respite and, at her table, there was always another plate to be found for the latecomer. . . . As Professor Bill Driver said, “As always, the best theater happens out of the audience’s eye, though under Natalie’s gaze.” —William Todd-Jones, former assistant technical director, Bard Theatre She did, in those days, what four or five staff members do now for the Dance and Theater & Performance Programs. She taught and energized countless students who also had discovered a passion for the performer’s art. —Jean Churchill, professor of dance The greatest lessons were the ones that you would never find in any textbook. Natalie taught you to look and question what you were looking at. She wanted you to understand it on all levels. Because then you could work with it and understand how it fits into the grand scheme of the production. —Dave Chontos ’88 She never taught me a class or gave me a grade. She did teach me, though, whenever I was with her: the lobby of the theater, the costume shop (where everything was too tall for me to reach), at her incredibly long dining table that could fit so many people around it, in her van driving to New York City to pick up fabric or costumes, on a bar stool at Adolf’s, or her patio in August. —Karin Eckert ’87

Natalie Lunn. photo Courtesy of Catherine Grillo ’82

Any time I questioned my ability—even at the prospect of using the dreaded sewing machine—Natalie never doubted that I would figure it out. All that faith, all those skills (including cooking a foolproof salmon soufflé), live with me still, and I am proud to say that “figure it out” is a mantra my children hear often. —Joanna Allen Lodin ’82 She fed us. She clothed us. She paid us. She even cut my hair. And she always could drink us under the table. She was the first person to treat us as adults. —Kenny Kosakoff ’81 She believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself—I’m still not sure why, but I’m forever grateful. Because even today, with whatever challenges I face, I know I that I’ll find a way to work through it and come out the other side a little more elevated than I was before. —Lisa (Jurkowski) Vasey ’84 “Buck up.” “Get over it.” “Wear pink.” Her words still keep me grounded and (sometimes) dressed in something other than black. She helped a shy freshman become the stage manager I am today, albeit in a nontheatrical career. She gave me a home and a second family; nursed me through the flu; taught me to cook; and, years later, was sweet and generous to my kids. Natalie has a lot to do with the woman and mother I am today. —Laura Caruso ’86 Natalie answered my knock and opened her door on a world of oriental rugs, dark green wicker, extravagant white cats, thousands of books, shards of fabric, paintings, silver, crossword puzzles, coffee, and an atmosphere of comfort completely unlike the rest of the College. I think that “blessed” is the right word. —Peter Kosewski ’77 I got to be a part of something that has stayed with me all these years, if for no other reason than the friendships formed and kept. —Chris Larsen-Nelson ’73 The community she fostered in that marvelous, cluttered apartment in Tewksbury was a family, and it remains a family to this day. A bit scattered, perhaps, and with a bewildering array of distant cousins, but nonetheless joined by the shared experience of having been befriended and nurtured by Natalie. —Catherine (Heusel) Grillo ’82 To honor the legacy of Natalie Lunn, alumni/ae and friends have established the Natalie Lunn Technical Theater Award, an endowed summer internship, to help students pursue their interest in technical theater. Please send donations, payable to Bard College, to “Natfund,” Bard College PO Box 5000, Annandaleon-Hudson, NY, 12504-5000, or donate online at annandaleonline.org/natfund. Questions may be directed to Robert Laity, assistant director of the Annual Fund, at laity@bard.edu or 845-758-7315.

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Honor Roll of Donors July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013 Dear Alumni/ae, Parents, and Friends: It is my hope that you will take a moment to look through the list of names presented here—the individuals and institutions whose generosity makes Bard’s ambitious goals possible. Together they have raised over $38 million for the College. All of us here at Bard are extremely grateful. Three years ago, we launched the 150th Anniversary Campaign. To date, we have met 71 percent of our goal, raising $420,235,676. Twenty-three percent of this is in irrevocable testamentary gifts. Every gift in this report is a part of that effort. I am certain that we will reach our goal of $594 million—but in order to do so every gift is needed, no matter its size. Bard has never had the privilege of a significant endowment, but we operate on a balanced budget, thanks to the trustees, alumni/ae, parents, friends, students, staff, and faculty who give each year. Our priority now is support for the ongoing work of the College during the next five years. As you can see from the stories in the Bardian, the College continues its role as an innovator both in the United States and around the world. Bard’s alumni/ae illustrate the potential of a liberal arts education. In 2013, donor philanthropy helped us award financial aid to 65 percent of all students, which totals more than $35 million in annual scholarships. Each and every one of you can be proud of the students we support. Thanks to our donors, solar panels are being installed on campus that will generate enough kilowatt-hours to power the electricity usage of 30 average American households for a year. Students taking an Environmental and Urban Studies Program class are working with an architect, contractors, and campus faculty and staff to design and build a grant-funded digital media studio using a repurposed shipping container. The Bard College Farm, behind Ward Manor, organized by students, is flourishing, and students and alumni/ae are pursuing, as a group, the study of drones—the outgrowth of a Senior Project from the Class of 2013. On behalf of all of my colleagues at the College, I want to thank the donors listed here for their support. I also want to extend my appreciation to the many alumni/ae, parents, and friends whose time, wisdom, and devotion to Bard make the College stronger. Their combined generosity permits the College to be a private institution acting in the public interest, not only through the Annandale campus, but also through the Bard High School Early Colleges, Bard Prison Initiative, and the College’s international programs and its programs in the arts. Cordially,

Leon Botstein, President, Bard College

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Donors by Giving Societies Coronam Vitae $1,000,000+ Hon. Anne Cox Chambers Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander + Lynda and Stewart Resnick + Martin T. and Toni Sosnoff + Susan Weber + President’s Circle $500,000–999,999 Anonymous (1) + Dr. László Z. Bitó ’60 and Olivia Cariño Marieluise Hessel and Edwin L. Artzt + Estate of Theodore H. Smyth ’37 Charles P. Stevenson Jr. and Alexandra Kuczynski + Patricia Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis Founder’s Circle $100,000–499,999 Anonymous (6) + Stanley Buchthal and Maja Hoffmann + Gale and Shelby Davis + Robert S. Epstein ’63 and Esta Epstein + Jeanne Donovan Fisher + Pamela and George F. Hamel Jr. + Marguerite S. Hoffman + Dr. Herbert J. Kayden + Mr. and Mrs. George A. Kellner + Estate of Lenore Latimer Sandy and Barbara Lewis + Patti* and Murray Liebowitz + Lisa and Robert W. Lourie Kate and Al Merck + John* and Wendy Neu + Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr. + Vasily Shakhnovskiy Marilyn and Jim Simons Melissa Schiff Soros and Robert Soros + Prof. Alan N. Sussman + Felicitas S. Thorne + Jeffrey W. and Laura H. Ubben Fred Wilson Scholar’s Circle $50,000–99,999 Anonymous (2) Carolyn Marks Blackwood + Anne Delaney Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein Chris and Morton Hyman + Audrey M. Irmas + Karen Ranucci and Michael Ratner Bruce Ratner and Dr. Pamela Lipkin Estate of James N. Rosenau ’48 Jonathan Slone ’84 Fellow $25,000–49,999 Kathryn Keller Anderson and Scott Anderson + Helen ’48 and Robert L. Bernstein + Sybil B. Bernstein + Dr. Leon Botstein and Barbara Haskell + Alexandre and Lori Chemla + Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg + Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg + Selma Ertegun Adaline H. Frelinghuysen + James Grosfeld + Michael D. Haddad Helen Hecht

* deceased |

Dr. and Mrs. Henry G. Jarecki + Jennifer U. Johnson Belinda and Stephen Kaye + Andrea Krantz and Harvey Sawikin Geraldine and Kit Laybourne + Jennifer and Marc Lipschultz + Tricia and Foster Reed + Estate of Anne Atwood Rieder Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Gregg Seibert + Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Selz + Beatrice Stern Lisa Stern + Alice and Tom Tisch + Richard W. Wortham III + Tewksbury Roundtable $10,000–24,999 Anonymous (3) + Helen and Roger Alcaly + Roland Augustine + Anthony Barrett and Donna Landa + Sallie and Thomas Bernard Cornelia S. Bessie + March Avery Cavanaugh and Philip G. Cavanaugh + Edward Lee Cave + Michelle R. Clayman + Joan K. Davidson + Mr. Arnold J. Davis ’44 + Verónica Hernández de Chico Mr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de Las Heras + Christian Destremau Beth Rudin DeWoody + Edmund and Joanne Ellis + Elizabeth W. Ely ’65 and Jonathan K. Greenburg + Bonnie and Kenneth J. Feld Stefano Ferrari and Lilo Zinglersen + Catherine C. Fisher and Gregory A. Murphy + Estate of Richard B. Fisher + Lawrence B. Friedman Kenneth and Sara Geld S. Asher Gelman ’06 + Eric Warren Goldman ’98 + Barbara S. Grossman ’73 and Michael Gross + Dean Hachamovitch and Joan Morse Adrea D. Heebe and Dominick A. Russo Jr. Charles and Laurence Heilbronn + Margaret Hempel Michele L. Hertz ’81 + Jacqueline Humphries Tessa Huxley and Andrew Reicher + Benjamin and Cathy Iselin + Barbara S. ’50 and Ralph Italie + Richard H. Jenrette Dakis Joannou + Curtis and Jill Kaufman Susan and Roger Kennedy + Dr. Barbara Kenner + Edna and Gary Lachmund + Evelyn and Leonard Lauder + Mrs. Mortimer Levitt + Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65 + Doris J. Lockhart Prof. and Mrs. Mark Lytle + Amy and Thomas O. Maggs + Geraldine Fabrikant Metz Joseph and Cynthia Mitchell Patricia and Peter Nadosy Joey O’Loughlin Dimitri B. and Rania Papadimitriou + D. Miles Price +

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Stanley A. ’65 and Elaine Reichel + Drs. M. Susan and Irwin Richman + Courtney Sale Ross Barbro Sachs and Bernard A. Osher David E. Schwab II ’52 and Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52 + William S. ’68 and Claire E. Sherman + Denise S. Simon and Paulo Vieiradacunha + Vesna Straser ’95 and Brandon K. Weber ’97 + Illiana van Meeteren + Dr. Jan and Marica Vilcek + Margo and Anthony Viscusi + Mildred Weissman Millie and Robert Wise + Anita and Poju Zabludowicz Warden’s Society $5,000–9,999 Anonymous (1) + Jan and Warren J. Adelson + Irene B. Aitken David and Lauren Albert Dr. Penny Axelrod ’63 and Dr. Jerome Haller + Maria A. Baird and George J. Cotsirilos + Valerie B. Barr and Susan Yohn John C. and Julia P. Begley Marshall S. Berland and John E. Johnson Harvey Berman Thomas R. Berner, Esq. + Jack A. Blum ’62 + Ted Bonin Gustavo Cisneros and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros + Steven M. Dawson Richard A. and Dr. Barbara Knowles Debs + Estate of Rev. Lyford P. Edwards + Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Leonard and Susan Feinstein + Sondra Gilman Jeffrey R. Glass Elissa Goldstone ’07 Marian Goodman + Amy and Jeffrey Gui Agnes Gund + Amar and Padmini Gupta + Eliot D. and Paula K. Hawkins + Ernest Henderson III* + Alan Hilliker and Vivien Liu Drs. James S. Hoffman and Karen Zabrensky ’73 Joan M. Hutchins David W. Kaiser and Rosemary Corbett Renee and David Kaplan Dr. Michael and Robin R. Katz + Christopher W. and Parthenia R. Kiersted + Christine Kwiatkowski and Robert Abraham Barnett Alison L. and John C. Lankenau + Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Dr. Nancy Leonard and Dr. Lawrence Kramer Jane K. Lombard + Charles and Mary Macksoud Vera Mayer Christopher J. and Jamie L. McGurk Constance McPhee Grace and Shepard Morgan Jeffrey and Ora Nadrich Roger Netzer and Francie Campbell Jim and Talila O’Higgins Kenneth Olshansky and Margot Owett

Estate of William Pitkin ’49 + Habeeb Quadri Syeda Quadri Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rose Rick Rosenthal and Nancy Stephens + Dame Theresa Sackler Mr. and Mrs. Irving Schlossberg Jodi and Marc Schneider + David L. and Rebecca Y. Schroedel + Paul F. and Peggy Schubert + Lewis J. Silvers Jr. ’50 + Nina Skaya Prof. Peter and Eve Sourian + Elizabeth M. Stafford Geoffrey E. Stein ’82 + Dr. Kathryn E. Stein ’66 + David Stemerman Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb + Michael Ward Stout Robert B. and Toni Strassler + Faizah G. Syed Alison M. and James A. von Klemperer + Shelby White + Hon. Kimba Wood and Frank E. Richardson III Bard College Council $2,500–4,999 Susan and André Aciman + Mohammed Ahmed Ellen and Kenneth Aidekman + Mary J. Amoroso and James J. McQueeny Robert ’53 and Marcia Amsterdam + Mary I. Backlund and Virginia Corsi + John Bader Renée Preisler Barasch and Richard Barasch Eva Thal Belefant ’49 + Prof. Mario Bick and Prof. Diana Brown + Laurel Meinig Brewster ’71 + Carrie M. and Edward C. Brittenham Kay Brover and Arthur Bennett Deborah B. and Philip D. English Brett H. Fialkoff ’88 Larry Fuchsman and Dr. Janet Strain + Matthew M. Guerreiro and Christina Mohr + Geoffrey and Sarah Gund Karen Hagberg and Mark Jackson + Boriana Handjiyska ’02 + Sanford Heller Tom Heman and Janelle Reiring Irene Hollister Anne E. Impellizzeri + Roger D. Isaacs ’49 + Warren and Allison Kanders Prof. Patricia Karetzky + Josh Kaufman ’92 + Fernanda Kellogg and Kirk Henckels + Max Kenner ’01 + Richard F. Koch ’40* + Kord and Prof. Ellen Lagemann + Amy Natkins Lipton ’75 and Richard Lipton + Christina and James Lockwood + Hollis Logan and Robert Weinberg Dr. Michael J. Maresca ’86 + Peter F. McCabe ’70 + Dr. Peter D. McCann Mollie Meikle ’03 + Richard and Ronay Menschel + Barbara Miral ’82 and Alberto Gatenio + Martin L. and Lucy Miller Murray +

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Stephen R. Nelson Karen G. Olah ’65 + Dr. Daniel Fulham O’Neill ’79 + Gladys Perez-Mendez + Edmund F. and Jane M. Petty Lorelle Marcus Phillips ’57 and Roger Phillips ’53 + Howard Read Frederick W. Richmond Enrique A. Ringel ’94 Andrea Rosen + Eliza and Jim Rossman + Joan A. Schaffer ’75 + Sarah and Howard Solomon + Spyridon and Phoebe Spetsieris + Allan and Ronnie Streichler + Lenard and Fern Tessler Walter Tillow + Seran and Ravi Trehan + Dr. Siri von Reis + Merida Welles and Chip Holman + Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Eric Wong Irene R. Zedlacher + St. Stephen’s Society $1,000–2,499 Anonymous (2) Robert and Marilyn Adams Arshes Anasal and Dena M. Davis + Margaret Arent and Timothy O’Shea Jane Evelyn Atwood ’70 + K. T. Auleta Donald Baier ’67 and Marjorie Mann ’68 + Ian and Margaret Ball + Nancy Banks and Stephen Penman + Robert C. ’57 and Lynn A. Bassler + Prof. Laura Davis Battle Nancy K. and Dr. Peter S. Bauer + Leigh Beery and Jonathan Tunick ’58 + Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56 + Jordan Berkowitz ’03 + Elizabeth and Richard K. Berman + Barbara Biel and James Lettiere Namita S. Biggins Anne Donovan Bodnar and James L. Bodnar Marianne Boesky Anne P. Bonaparte and Gilbert J. Williams Brian D. Bonnar ’77 + Tom Borden and Gail Gabiati Sarah Botstein and Bryan Doerries + Harlan Bratcher and William L. Usnik Jr. Fred Bratman Stuart Breslow and Anne Miller + Patrice M. and Stuart Bressman Family of Xena and Iolanthe Brooks Stephen N. Bunzl Bruce and Bettina Buschel + John Canney and Sonia Laudi Constance R. Caplan + Amy Cappellazzo + Pia Carusone ’03 + Gail and Tony Cashen Lyle Casriel Barbara B. Castelli + Jill and John S. Chalsty Lydia Chapin and David Soeiro + Alison Chase ’89 Dave Chase Ellen Chesler and Matthew J. Mallow + Melissa L. Chevalier ’92 + Kathleya Chotiros ’98 + Andrew Y. Choung ’94 +

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Eileen and Michael Cohen + Bobbi and Dr. Barry S. Coller Dr. Lisette Cooper Fiona C. and Stewart A. Copeland Jane R. Cottrell Robert Couturier John J. Coyne ’00 + David E. and Ide W. Dangoor Blythe Danner ’65 + Gus N. Davis Thomas Joseph Deegan Day Nathalie and Charles de Gunzburg + Mr. and Mrs. Oscar de la Renta Peter Del Swords Koulas and Angelo Delianides Anthony Delorenzo Charles Deull and Laurel A. Dutcher Hester Diamond Drs. Karen C. Diaz and Joseph E. Johnson Dr. William T. Dickens ’76 + Elleni Dimitriadou and Ioannis Vagianos Judy Donner ’59 Amy K. and David Dubin + Malia K. Du Mont ’95 + Michael F. Dupree Deborah Elkind and Gregory Shatan + Anthony M. ’82 and Kristina E. ’83 Ellenbogen + Kit Kauders Ellenbogen ’52 + Wendy R. Epstein and James G. Steiker Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby Jerrold N. and Sally Ann Fine + Arthur and Susan Fleischer Jr. + Cormac J. Flynn ’90 F. Frederic Fouad Andrew F. Fowler ’95 and Amanda Burrows-Fowler ’98 + Dr. Richard G. Frank ’74 + Gregg E. and Jean A. Frankel + Adriana Friedman + Dr. Richard C. Friedman ’61 + Sandra Gaffner Michael and Irene Gakin John Geller + Emel Glicksman and Justin B. Israel + Robert A. Goldfarb ’59 Stephanie A. Goldfine + Katherine Gould-Martin and Prof. Robert L. Martin + Drs. William Gratzer and MaryAnne Cucchiarelli + Jessica Greenbaum Dr. David and Zelda Greenstein + Eugene Groelle Lawrence C. Grossman ’85 Catherine Gund Susan F. Gutow ’63 + Bruce and Diane Halle + Steven C. Halstead George F. Hamel III ’08 + Thomas and Bryanne Hamill + Susan Hye K. Han Morrison Heckscher Barbara S. Herst ’52 + Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Herzner + Tanny and Kent Hodgetts Frederic K. and Elena Howard + Lauren Hunt + Roisin Inglesby ’12 Michael and Deborah Irwin Dr. and Mrs. Bertrand R. Jacobs Martin L. Joffe ’56 Dr. Celeste Johns Estate of David R. Johns ’15 + Charles S. Johnson III ’70 and Sondra Rhoades Johnson +

Rachel and Dr. Shalom Kalnicki + Helene L. and Mark N. Kaplan + Anka Kast ’93 John S. M. Katzenbach ’72 + Gale D. Kaufman and Michael van Biema Dr. Katrena and Mr. Randall Kennedy Martin Kenner and Camilla Smith + Stephen J. Kessler ’68 + Renee N. Khatami ’77 + J. P. Kingsbury ’03 + Dr. Seymour and Harriet Koenig + Charlotte H. and Simon P. Kooyman Richard Kortright Elaine M. and Richard M. Krim David R. LaChance and Joan G. Rubel Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder + Alfred J. Law and Glenda A. Fowler Law + Erin J. Law ’93 + Robert Lee ’03 M. Michael Lerner + Dr. Michael A. Lerner + Amala and Eric Levine Ralph S. Levine ’62 + Timothy H. Lewis ’10 Dr. William V. Lewit ’52 and Gloria Lewit + Glenn Ligon Scott W. Lithgow ’80 Anthony F. Lockwood ’94 and Ruth Keating Lockwood ’92 Nina K. MacAlister and Robert J. MacAlister ’50* Christina Manigbas David Mann Susan C. Mann ’78 + Jeffrey M. Marks Matthew Marks Nancy A. Marks Robert V. Marrow ’62 + Steven Maslow + Stephen Mazoh and Martin Kline Sarah E. McDonald and Dr. Mark D. Moreland Anna McDonnell and Samuel Harper Lynne Meloccaro ’85 + Attilio Meucci Melissa A. Meyer David Michaelis and Nancy Steiner Andrea and Kenneth L. Miron + Mona Pine Monroe ’52 + Charlotte Moss and Barry Friedberg Charles R. Naef ’53 Anna Neverova ’07 + Lynn J. Novick and Robert Smith Glenn H. Nussdorf and Claudine J. Strum Diane L. Nye + Dr. Daniel R. O’Connor + Melinda Florian Papp Dr. Richard Pargament ’65 + Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Payton + Debra R. Pemstein and Dean Vallas + Martha Perlson Gary and Luba Peysakhovich Gabriela Alis Philo Robert S Pirie Susan Pollack ’70 Annie Louise and Mark Poor Arabella Powell Ann Pyne ’07 + Brian J. Ramsey ’73 Barbara B. Reis + Marguerite Rodgers + James P. and Linda Rosenbloom + Jonathan Roth + Blanche and Bruce Joel Rubin

Maureen and Richard Sabo James G. Salvucci ’86 + Elaine B. Sargent Charles Saulson ’74 Barbara and Dick Schreiber David A. Schulz + Sarah Seaver and John Spielberg + Janet Zimmerman Segal ’50 + Elisabeth Semel ’72 and James Thomson + Kendall Serota ’04 + Judith A. Shepherd ’69 + Robert B. Shepler John D. and Marsha A. Shyer + Brent Sikkema David Silver ’83 Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk Ellynne Skove + Olivia Smith Stephen H. Smith + Jared Snyder and Camilla Lee Andrew Solomon and John Habich Solomon Jennifer and Jonathan T. Soros Dr. Ingrid A. Spatt ’69 + Gabriella Sperry Selda Jerrold Steckler ’48 + Edwin Steinberg + Janet Stetson ’81 and Danny Shanahan + Beverly H. and Sabin C. Streeter Nancy Swett + Walter E. Swett ’96 + Emily Tarsell + Alice J. Tenney Lynn Thommen David Tieger + Governor Tipton and Julia Saunders Barbara and Donald Tober + Judith Tolkow and Leland Woodbury + Dr. Elisabeth F. Turnauer-Derow Evlynn Udell Beth Uffner + Olivia van Melle Kamp Edith Van Slyck and James Hammond Gordon VeneKlasen + Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner Lindsay F. Watton Jr. + Robb Webb and Patricia DeRousie-Webb Rosemary and Noel Werrett Dr. Stephen A. Wertheimer ’59 + Rebecca Westerfield David Wetherill Arlene M. and James B. Whitley + Maureen A. Whiteman and Lawrence J. Zlatkin Susan and Jeffrey Winn + David and Joan Sylvester Wise + Stephen M. Wolf John S. Wong William D. Zabel and Deborah Miller Bill Zifchak and Maggie Evans Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Zubatkin Friends $500–999 Anonymous (1) + Caroline and Stephen E. Adler James Akerberg and Larry Simmons + John and Ann Allen Ray Allen Claire Angelozzi ’74 + Richard Armstrong and Dorsey Waxter + Joshua J. Aronson +

Kathleen Augustine + Malgorzata Babiak Moira Bailey and Thomas Duffy + Alexander and Margaret Bancroft + Richard Bogart Barber and Ann Hathaway Schaetzel + Allan A. and Melissa G. Baumgart Prof. Jonathan and Jessica K. Becker Ward C. Belcher Jonathan A. and Judith A. Benowitz + Alice D. Berkeley Laurie A. ’74 and Stephen H. Berman ’74 William L. Bernhard and Catherine Cahill Elizabeth C. Birdsall ’93 Steven T. Blackman ’68 Paula Fuchs Blasier ’68 + Ellen Bogdonoff and Jeffrey A. Horwitz Daniel J. Brassard ’84 + Dr. Alan S. Brenner and Mrs. Ronni C. Brenner ’64 + Jane A. Brien ’89 + Warren A. Briggs ’60 C. Ann and James Brudvig + Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond J. Learsy + John Burke and Dr. Sarah Hahn-Burke Renata Cafiero ’55 + Dr. Maureen Callahan and Steve M. Victore Carla A. Camp ’50 + Anne Jennings Canzonetti ’84 and Matthew Canzonetti ’84 + Anne Zitron Casey ’83 and David T. Casey ’78 Richard and Lisa Cashin Fu-chen Chan + Drs. Quin-Zene Chen and Yen-Fang Keng Anastasia Christman ’91 Christine Churchill Charles B. Clancy III ’69 + Jim and Jane Cohan Frederick and Jan Cohen + Jennifer and Jonathan H. Cohen Lori L. Cohen Scott and Nijole Colabuono + Gary N. Comorau ’68 + Michael Conforti Joan Costa Liz Cutler and Tom Kreutz Claude Dal Farra Timothy M. Davis ’91 and Prof. Lisa Sanditz + Gabriella De Ferrari John Deluca Willem F. De Vogel Liz Dempsey ’05 + Ellyn and Saul Dennison + Anne Wellner de Veer ’62 + Michael DeWitt ’65 and Wenny DeWitt + Laurie Dien and Alan Yaillen Jacob and Suzanne Doft + Michele Oka Doner and Fred Doner Drs. John Dunne and Jenifer Lloyd James R. Dwyer and Sally J. Nagel Elisabeth Dyssegaard and David Kallick Randy Faerber ’73 + Naomi B. Feldman ’53 + Jack Fenn ’76 + Gaia Filicori ’07 + Odara Finemore Barbara G. Fleischman Martha J. Fleischman Allessandra and Antonio Foglia Janice and William Forsyth +

* deceased |

Jacqueline Fowler Elizabeth C. Frankel ’01 + Ann and Robert Freedman Laurie Fried Marilyn and Lawrence Friedland Ford and Mari Fujii + David L. Furth Laura Genero + Parker Gentry and Oakleigh B. Thorne Omar Gharzeddine and Hala Schourair + Profs. Helena and Christopher Gibbs + Laura and William Glasgall + Amy A. ’90 and Benjamin J. ’91 Goldberg + Michael and Anne Golden Leon Goldstein Jolie B. Golomb and Gordon I. Myers Jacob Benjamin Grana ’05 Margaret Griffin + Kenneth Gronningsater Douglas and Patricia Gross Dr. Joseph A. Halpern ’74 Gordon Hargraves Michele Beiny Harkins Amy C. Hass ’72 David and Nancy Hathaway James Hayden + John Helmrich Dr. Ann Ho ’62 and Harry Harper + Jeremy Hockenstein and Joanna Samuels Dr. Barbara K. Hogan Melanie Holcomb and Douglas T. Shapiro Martin Holub + Stephen Horowitz + Dr. Dwayne Huebner Amy Husten and James Haskin Elaine Marcotte Hyams ’69 and Paul R. Hyams Barbara L. Hyman ’53 David W. Jacobowitz ’65 and Linda Rodd + Diana and Mark Jacoby Amy Bachelder Jeynes and Scott Jeynes ’90 + Peter W. Josten ’48 Francis W. and Joan M. Jump + Rosalind Kaufman Edith and Hamilton F. Kean Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Keesee III Marguerite and Robert Kenner Dr. Thomas D. Kerenyi Dr. Jamie Kibel Erica Kiesewetter + Jeffrey A. and Karen R. Klafter John R. and Karen Klopp Kevin Klose Neil A. Kotey ’91 + Trudy C. Kramer Jill and Peter Kraus + Anne R. Kreeger Kenneth M. Kroll Elizabeth Kujawski Mara Kurka + Knight Landesman ’73 Martin Langfield + Janet and L. D. Larose Alexa Lennard ’04 + Elise and Jeffrey Lennard + Margot R. and Robert A. Lewis Toby D. Lewis + Patricia Duane Lichtenberg David Loeb John R. Low-Beer Jennifer M. Lupo ’88 Jane R. ’63 and George P. ’65 Lynes II +

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

João Magalhães Ezra P. and Reeva S. Mager Dr. Peter H. Maguire ’88 and Annabelle Lee Carter Romy Mann Allen Mansfield Barbara and William Maple + Paul Marcus ’76 and Katherine Juda + Sally M. Maruca Jonathan Massey ’85 + David Matias Liese Mayer ’05 + Amie McEvoy + George McNeely Florence S. Mercer Natalie Merchant Hon. Fred and Lynne Mester Barbara L. and Arthur Michaels + Michael M. Miller ’63 Barbara and Howard Morse Sarah Mosbacher ’04 + Marion Nestle Prof. Melanie B. Nicholson + Anne Nissim Russ and Kim Nitchman + Jennifer Olshin ’98 James* and Purcell Palmer Gerald Pambo-Awich ’08 + Jeanine S. and Ronald M. Pastore Jr. + Rita Pavone Christopher Pennington ’87 + Chris Pettker and Hesse Metcalf Samuel and Ellen Phelan Leslie Phillips ’73 + Matthew H. Phillips ’91 Margrit and Albrecht Pichler + Lucas Pipes ’08 and Sarah Elizabeth Coe Paden ’09 + Arlene H. Pollack + Nancy L. and Dr. Yaron S. Rabinowitz John and Claire Reid + Jane L. Richards + Steven B. Richards ’72 + Emma Richter ’09 and Alex Gaudio ’10 + Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Dr. Andrew Romay Anne Rorimer + Dr. Joan Shufro Rosenblatt ’56 + Robert Andrew Ross ’09 + Stephen Rustow Ted Ruthizer and Jane Denkensohn Amy Sackin + Laura and Adam Saltman Louise A. Sarezky ’66 + Heidi J. Savage and John F. Shimkoski Lisa Savin ’03 + Mark A. Schaffer Deborah A. and Stephen G. Scholl + Louise Tachau Schulman ’51 + Jimmy Schwarz ’49 + Henry Seltzer ’06 + Lizbeth and Stephen Shafer Linda D. and Mark A. Shapiro Michael Shea ’75 + Alexandra E. Sheedy Samantha Shubert and Steven Young Amy Denison Sillman ’95 + Lea Hillman Simonds Florence and Warren J. Sinsheimer Linda Harrison Sitnick ’69 + Ted Snowdon Stephen N. Sollins ’90 + Nancy Solomon David Sorkin + Annaliese Soros James and Noell Sottile

Dr. Abraham Spector ’47 + Scott Spencer Debbie Waxman Staw ’86 + Jeremy Steinberg + Robert C. Stempel ’52 and Razelle S. Stempel + H. Peter Stern and Helen Drutt English + Mark Street ’86 + Ben Strubel Angelique A. and Seymour S. Sub Peter Sullivan Marina Park Sutton ’78 Dr. Naomi Parver Taylor ’62 + Oakleigh Thorne Stephen B. Tremaine ’07 + Preston Turco Lourdes Wan Dr. Ian Wardropper + Sue Anne Weinberg Laura E. and Jay M. Weinman + John B. Weinstein Roger Weisberg and Karen Freedman Jerry Weisskohl Wendy J. Weldon ’71 + Lynne Beringer White ’75 John and Dr. Margaret Wilbur Michael P. A. Winn ’59 Andrew J. Yoon ’94 + Supporters $499 and under Anonymous (5) + Andy Aaron ’76 Elizabeth Abbe and Lewis A. Schneider + Ilan Abikhzir Gerald F. and Rebecca L. Abualy Kristen Accola Dr. Alberto Accomazzi and Andrea Koenig ’86 Chris Adams ’84 Ellen Adams ’78 Debbie and Lawton Adams Jr. Chris Adamson Beth Shaw Adelman ’74 Dr. Lester and Stephanie Adelman Michael and Sarah Poor Adelman ’90 J. David Adler + Casimir Agbi Barbara J. Agren Joseph Ahern and Leland Midgette + Joseph Ahlstrom and Catherine Quense Taimur Ahmad ’12 Hussien Ahmed and Hoda Zaabal Imran Ahmed ’02 Syed Ahmed and Samea Muhammad Saw Hong Ai Tugcan Aktas Maria Isabel Alarcon Tomas Alarcon Dorothy C. Albertini ’02 + Daria M. Albini ’77 + Jamie Albright Betsaida Alcantara ’05 Carl Alexander Coleen M. Alexander ’00 and Matthew Alexander + Dr. David and Deborah Alexander + Deborah Alexander Margaret B. Alexander ’68 and Richard A. Alexander ’68 + Pauline Alexander ’76 Dr. Lefa E. Alksne ’85 + Rebecca A. Allan David Allen Esther Allen

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Supporters, continued Richard Allen ’67 + Jesus J. Alonso and Alice G. Glasner Sibel A. Alparslan ’88 Sarah Knapp Alper Nevin Altaras Dr. and Mrs. Morton Alterman Enid J. and Michael P. Ames + Gail Levinson Ames ’78 Rob Ames Steven A. Ames Nancy Amis ’79 Jenny Amperiadis Jayson Amster and Mary K. Hanna David Anchel and Julia L. Heyer Daniela R. Anderson ’12 James and Margaret Anderson + James M. and Dr. Rebecca A. Anderson Linda Anderson ’81 Lydia Anderson ’03 Vanessa Anderson Eric E. Angress + Dr. Jean M. Antonucci ’76 + Carolyn Antrim ’65 + José A. Aponte ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Appell Cary Appenzeller and Beth Schlau Mr. and Mrs. Stylianos O. Arapakis + Amir and Lisa Arbisser Gail Archer Sarah K. Archer ’06 Dana Archer-Rosenthal Dylan A. Armajani ’07 Raymond Armater Charlotte P. Armstrong Helene Armstrong Tiziana Arno Lauren Arnold ’12 Eric S. and Gayle Arnum Madeleine Y. Arthur ’78 Patricia and Richard Asaro Jane Kastenbaum Asch Kelly Asprooth-Jackson ’03 and Sara Weisman ’03 Margeret Atkinson and Rafael Angel Soto Sr. Martha Atwell ’85 + Estate of Barbara F. Atwood Susan Auchincloss John G. Aufderheide ’80 + Kesi Augustine ’08 Rochelle J. Auslander ’65 + John J. Austrian ’91 and Laura M. Austrian + David Avallone ’87 Hannah Avellone ’04 + Mr. and Mrs Scott Aveni Rev. George Back ’64 Jacob R. Backon ’07 Brian R. Bader Jesse D. Baer + John T. Bagg ’64 Christine B. Bailey Helena Baillie Edward W. and Linda S. Bair Hetty Baiz ’72 and James S. Perry ’71 + Magdalini Bakali ’11 Deborah Lynn Baker ’76 + Sally J. Baker Diane S. Baldwin ’66 Linda Baldwin Sybil Baldwin + Ann Lafargue Balin E. R. Balinton Curtis and Deena Ball Erica J. Ball ’11

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Georgette F. Ballance Mickell Balonze Tanja Balzer James D. Banks ’73 and Jeannie Motherwell ’74 Faye Shivon Baptiste ’04 Drs. Richard L. Barbano and Julie L. Fudge Steven A. Barbash ’55 + Cynthia R. and James R. Barber Grace Barber ’07 Ms. Mary Ellen Bardagjy and Mr. Michael King Siri L. Bardarson Angela L. Bardeen ’97 Paul Barger Frances and Edward L. Barlow Kay Barned-Smith and St. John Smith Harold and Tracy Barnes Stefanie M. Barnes Jordan G. and Lisa S. Barness Camilla Yohn Barr ’11 Kathy Barr ’66 Maureen Barratt Barbara B. Barre ’69 + Lionel R. Barrow ’11 Prof. Thomas Bartscherer Barbara and Theodore Bartwink Robert and Martha Battles Nicholas and Rochelle L. Batzdorf Rob Bauer ’63 + Robert Bauer and Mary Gregoriou-Bauer Ms. Nan Bauer-Maglin Stephanie Bauman ’05 and Bjorn Quenemoen ’03 Zoe A. Baumgardner ’06 Melissa R. and Samuel F. Bayard Carl Bayer and Sheila E. Reed Valery Bayshtok Jane Bealer and Dr. John Taylor + Dr. Barbara A. Beall-Fofana ’69 Lisa and Thomas Beath + Thomas Beath ’12 Matthew Beatrice David J. and Susan R. Beattie + Belinha Rowley Beatty ’69 Brenden Beck ’07 + Jeffrey S. Becker ’88 Dr. Johanna K. Becker ’60 + Beverly Beckman ’48 Bruce Bedell ’85 Kevin Begos ’88 Lynn Behrendt ’81 Michaela M. and George E. Beitzel Dr. Paul A. and Tien C. Belk Michael Belkin Howard and Mary Bell + Joshua A. Bell ’98 + LouAnn Bell Susan Bell and Philip Hart + Antonia Bellanca + Martine R. Bellen ’78 + Elizabeth Phillips Bellin ’00 and Marco M. S. Bellin + Dr. Howard Bellin Yvette and Maurice Bendahan Courtney Bender Gwynedd A. Smith Benders ’99 + Sandra Bendfeldt Dr. Regina Bendix Emily Benedetto ’02 Carrie Benevento ’91 + Dr. Jess and Madeline Benhabib + Riva Bennett and Ira Mayer Steven Bennish ’82

Ellen S. Benowitz Joan A. Benowitz Mitchell J. Benowitz Saul Benowitz Raphael Ben-Yehuda ’88 Brendan Berg ’06 Emily Berger Leonard W. Berger and Sandra D. Cohen Michele T. Berger ’91 Estate of William E. Berger ’17 + Hugo W. Berkeley + Dr. Rhoda L. and Dr. Roger M. Berkowitz Therese Berkowitz Frederick Berliner + Rochelle Berliner Robert Bernacett Constance Ruth Bernstein Hope Bernstein ’47 + Dr. Howard B. Bernstein Roger Berstein and Nicole A. Gordon Prof. Daniel S. Berthold Fred Berthold Jr. Dr. Morton M. Besen ’52 + Alexandra Bettina ’11 John Bevan Jane Bevans Sunil Bhardwaj Theresa Bhoopsingh ’00 + Khurshed Bhumgara + John Biando ’03 Sally T. Bickerton ’89 + Ian Bickford Flora M. Biddle Clara F. Bido Cindy Bielak and Richard L. Schaffer Jennifer Biener ’12 Alexander and Joyce Biener + Paulette Bierzychudek Rona S. Bigam Richard R. Bilangi ’72 + Montana Billings and William Kennedy + Neil Binder Jane Bindley Beatrice and David Birch Henry Bird ’63 Kenneth D. Birnbaum and Vera Titunik Karen Biro Iva Bittová Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Blacklow Marge and Ed Blaine + Odette Blaisdell Kenneth R. Blake ’80 + Christine M. Blaschak Gabriel Blau ’02 Peter Blaxill ’53 Sandee L. Blechman and Steven H. Goldberg + James E. and Marjorie B. Bliss Joshua D. ’95 and Molly M. Northrup ’94 Bloom Susan Bloomberg Andrew M. and Felicia H. Blum Dorothy Blumner Elisabeth Boada Julie Clark Boak Sasha Boak-Kelly and John T. Kelly + Drs. Elizabeth A. Bobrick and Andrew S. Szegedy-Maszak Suzanne Bocanegra and David Lang Susan H. Bodine ’72 + Johanna Bodnyk ’03 Linda Boldt ’68 and Martin W. Burman ’66 + Whitney F. Bolton ’51 + Vanessa Bombardieri ’03

Reyna Erika Bonaparte ’06 Scott Bonebrake Stephen K. Bonnett ’07 + Thomas W. Bonnett and Karen Kahn + Jennifer E. and William D. Boone Anna Boorstin Irem Bor Samantha Boshnack ’03 Joe A. Bostian and Leslie Coons Bostian Travis Bostick ’12 Clara Botstein Rufus Botzow ’69 + Nathalie Bouillon ’98 Laura Boxer Sherry Boyar ’77 Robert A. Boyce ’68 Dr. Judy Boyd Anne L. and Philip K. Bradford + Susan Hilty Brady Derek J. Brain ’92 Lisa and Robert Brainard + Noel Brandis ’01 Kimberly G. Braswell Doris Brautigan Francesca Bray Robert Braziunas and Odile Compagnon James Breene Andrew Brenman Roberta Brenna Nancy Brennan Frances P. and Jonathan Brent Denise Bricker ’85 + Jeff and Wendy Bricmont Karen E. Briefer-Gose ’85 Kathryn K. Briger Robert and Barbara Briggs John Brigham Drew Broach and Robin Peters Jerry and Brenda Brockett Inna Brodetskiy Geraldine Brodsky + Lisa Brody Neal T. Brofee ’93 Pamela and Philip Bronder-Giroux Camilla Brooks Naomi Brooks Matthew L. Brophy ’02 Drs. Ellen I. Broselow and Daniel L. Finer Johnathan C. Brotherhood ’78 Joanna Brotman and Mark A. Seltman + Anne T. Brown Danielle Zoey Brown ’03 Erwin Brown Holly E. Brown ’89 + Idee M. Brown ’75 Joanne E. and Kenneth D. Brown + Mrs. Jerome Brown ’49 Maximillian Brown ’93 Raquel Brown Dr. Timothy D. Brown James P. Browne ’86 + Jesse Browner ’83 and Judith Clain + Felipe Vega Brunk John C. D. and Nancy Bruno Carolyn A. and Matthew R. Brush Kirin Tatum Buckley ’97 + Theodora Budnik Brent Buell Luz Marina Bueno Alfred M. Buff and Lenore Nemeth + Claire Reilly Buff Yevgeniya Bulayevskaya ’03 Reginald Bullock Jr. ’84 + Gary P. Buonanno and Susan M. Danaher + Joanne Maaloe Burdick ’54

Michael Burgevin ’10 Caroline Day Burghardt ’97 + Yadira Huancayo Burgos Sheryl Burke ’87 Monica Burnett ’11 Richard W. Burnett LCSW ’65 Robin Burnett Regan Burnham ’69 Hannah Adams Burque ’01 + Stephen W. Burr ’53 + Sophie Burress ’11 Dr. Margaret Burroughs + Ronald Burrows Jeffrey and Ellyn Burstein Katherine Burstein ’09 + Dallas Burtraw Phyllis Busell and James M. Kostell Sally and Allen Butler + Judith and Lloyd Buzzell + Brooke A. Byrne ’85 + Hannah Byrnes-Enoch ’08 Carol Jean Bystrom ’83 Michael Bywater Robert C. Caccomo ’81 Anna Cagara Joan and William Cain + Megan Callaghan and Jeffrey T. Jurgens Thomas J. Callaghan ’87 Jamie Callan ’75 + Anna Callner ’02 Randalynn D. Calloway + Ina Calver ’94 Margaret Cammer Wendy W. Campbell ’72 + David Campolong and Erin Cannan-Campolong Jorge and Diana Canales Michael Caola Sarah Cappelli ’90 Maura Capps ’06 Anthony Cardenales ’08 Yolanda Cardenas Francesca Carendi ’08 R. Douglas and Leigh L. Carleton John Carlin Arthur Carlson ’79 and Julia Crowley Steven M. Carpenter ’87 and Amanda Katherine Gott ’96 + Ms. Suzette Carpio Lilia Y. Carrasco and Bienvenido E. Ortiz Claire June Carren ’73 Dan Charles Carroll ’96 + Philip and Mimi Carroll George Carrothers Joana Cartagena Kent Cartwright Dr. Laurence M. Carucci and Mary H. Maifeld + M. Jos Caruso Lindsey M. Casal-Roscum ’12 Steven M. Cascone ’77 MaryAnn and Thomas Case + Connie Casey and Harold E. Varmus Robin L. Caskey Dr. Shirley Cassara ’71 + Thomas J. Cassidy ’82 + Elinor Castagnola ’58 + Drs. Mariana C. Castells and Bernardo J. Perez-Ramirez Naomi Catalano ’88 Joseph P. and Rosemary Caulfield Danielle Celermajer Alisa Wong Cervin Lynn Aarti Chandhok and Robert S. Dieterich +

* deceased |

Arthur C. Chandler III ’82 and Elizabeth Krueger Chandler Henry P. Chandler Jr. ’43 + Michael L. and Roseanne E. Chandler + Caroline Chanin and Louis Haber + Geraldine Chapman Melanie Chapman ’88 Sally D. Charnow Jayni Chase Noah B. Chasin Yale Ross Chasin ’04 Stephanie Chasteen ’95 Robert and Michele Chausow Hector and Fabiana Chaves Jonathan A. Chavez ’12 Susan Chen Wellington Chen Jean Cheney Norman and Maranda Cheng + Rebecca C. Chernoff ’03 + Laurence J. Chertoff ’78 and Rose Gasner + Cheryl R. Chess ’88 and Aaron C. Lichtmanm ’86 James B. Chevallier ’72 Raimondo Chiari ’03 Claudia Chika Leslee T. Chinelli Magdalena Ching Michael Chirigos and Elizabeth Rexrode Laura and Townley W. Chisholm Violetta Chmielewski Irene Cho Kyung Cho and En Jung Kim David Chontos ’88 Pamela Chow and Ted Smith Richard N. Chrisman Dr. David Christensen and Ruth Horowitz Julia L. Christensen ’00 Colette Christian Kendall Christiansen and Carol Shuchman + Graeme Eric Christianson Daniel Chu and Lenore Schiff + Emery Chu Janice Chu ’06 Christophe J. Chung ’06 Alicia Ciccone ’07 Barbara and Joseph Ciccone Salvatore Cigna Gabrielle Civil Leslie R. Cizek ’51 Bradford J. and Karen M. Clair Constance and David C. Clapp Colin G. Clark ’91 and Vickery Barnett Doreen Clark ’78 and Lewis Copulsky ’79 Geoffrey W. Clark and Suzanne F. Smith Jan A. Clark + Judy Clark ’52 + Robert D. Clark Heather Clarke ’05 Steve Clay and Julie Harrison Marcelle Clements ’69 + Darrah L. Cloud Caroline E. S. Clough ’03 Erin E. Clune Rachel and Steven Coates Jeanne E. Cobetto S. Deborah Cocco Amy M. Coes ’99 + Aaron Cohen and Randy Frankel Elizabeth Cohen Laurence S. Cohen ’90 + Lizabeth Cohen Roberta Cohlan

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Connie B. Cohn ’62 Mary L. Cohoe and Leigh R. Smith Andrea L. Colby Aldyth and Mark Coler + Richard Collens + David Collins and Maura Kehoe Collins + Carol Colmenares Cindy Colter and Iftikhar Ahmad Bernadette S. Condesso Kell Condon ’06 and Kristen Keys ’06 Seth Congdon ’05 John R. Conklin Melissa Connelly George Connerat Michael Connolly Helen Conover and Robert Minor + Dr. Edward Conrad Cynthia Conti-Cook ’03 + Robin E. Cook ’90 Steven W. and Tina M. Coons Helen-Maurene Cooper ’03 + James P. Cooper Drs. Joanna A. Cooper and Charles H. Pollack + Ken Cooper Claudia L. Corcino Anna K. and Charles F. Corcoran III, Esq. Iris Corcos Andrew F. Corrigan ’00 and Jennifer Macksoud ’99 + Blaise Corrigan and Elizabeth Olesker Douglas Cosgrove ’76 + Warren A. Cosgrove + Jose Roberto Cosmo Alanna Costelloe-Kuehn ’08 Jacob Cottingham ’03 + David Coughlin Kristen M. Coulibaly ’92 Richard C. Coursen + Paul W. Cowan ’52 + Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Cox III + Mark V. Cox Paul V. Cox ’08 Laura Coxson ’00 Eric John Crahan ’96 and Sarah Elizabeth Smirnoff ’96 + Arthur D. Crane and Dorothy Dow Crane Mark Crawford and Dorothy Lyon Tracey Crawford Drs. William P. Crawford and Julie F. Parker Peter J. Criswell ’89 + Eileen and William Crivelli Dr. Morris L. Crow and Gloria K. Felter Nelcia Cruz Oscar Cruz Violeta Culcea Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Cummins Edmund Cuoco and Janet Sullivan Charles L. Currey ’61 + Elizabeth A. Curry and James P. Stodder Sandy K. Curry and Dr. Norman E. Toy Karen Cutler ’74 + Dr. Bruce Cuttler and Joanne E. Cuttler ’99 + Prof. Deirdre d’Albertis and Peter Joseph Gadsby Carole Daley James Daley Dr. JoAnn D’Alisera Bianca D’Allesandro ’03 William J. Dane Jon Benjamin Dangl ’03 Jean Daniels and Jose Pereira Sherwood A. Daniels ’68 +

Cynthia Maris Dantzic ’54 Karen Darrell Marina W. Dashkoff Katherine Daughety ’03 Penelope Daulton Dr. Krista Jeanne David ’96 + Nina David ’61 Eric M. Davis Harold Davis Kathryn R. Davis ’96 + Lindsay Davis ’06 + Mary E. Davis Mary R. Davis Thomas Alexander Davis ’08 Thomas J. Davis ’58 + Cheryl L. Davis-Noe ’73 John Dawson ’07 Lorenza Alarcon De Abaroa J. Roberto De Azevedo Mia de Bethune and Dean Wetherell Estate of James Deguire Lisa and McKim De Guzman John E. Deimel ’50 Dr. Gregory O. DeJean Nicole M. de Jesús ’94 + Timothy Delaney Jim Delaune and Jing Shuai Moller Alvarez del Castil Elizabeth de Lima and Bobby Alter Alexandra De Luise Xinzhu Deng Beth and Peter Denitz Julia Marie Denning ’13 James P. Denvir and Lee Wallace Elisabeth Derow Dr. Lisa M. DeTora ’89 Kelly DeToy ’07 Dr. Luanna E. Devenis ’76 + Michelle Devereux ’04 + Mohammad H. R. Dewan Erin R. DeWard ’86 and Ioannis Tsakos ’87 + Prof. Terence Dewsnap Sr. Susan Diamond Juan Carlos Diaz ’02 Joseph Michael Dick Stephen A. Dickman ’65 + Jane Dien Michla J. Dien C. Douglas and Leslie Dienel + John A. Dierdorff * + Judith A. Diers William Dietz and Lenore Solmo Dietz Anthony B. and Marian J. DiFabbio Sara M. Dilg ’94 Laddie J. Dill Deborah and Robert Dillon Dimitar Dimitrov Zameen Dindyal Bailey G. DiOrio Adelina Diperna Kathleen J. diStefano ’81 Margo A. Dittmer and George C. Monaco Elsa Dixler and Jeff Schneider + Eileen Di Yeso ’48 George B. Dobbs ’78 + John McLaughlin Doelp and Susan W. Doelp Anne Dohna Barton Dominus ’64 Dr. Michèle Dominy + Ty G. Donaldson ’92 + Sherab Dongshi Berna Donlon Patricia C. Donnelly

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Supporters, continued Rt. Rev. Herbert A. and Mary Donovan Libby Dorot ’09 Karen M. Dottavio Angela D. and Bruce A. D’Ottavio Kate Draper ’72 + Lisa S. Dratch ’09 Doreen Dreeben Marisa Driscoll ’87 Nina Drooker ’54 + Shlomit Dror ’06 Kenneth Drucker Benoist F. Drut Lawrence and Pamela Dube Seth Dubin Anne du Breuil and Fred Markham + Carmen Dubroc and Lewis Haber + Paul William DuCett D. Alexander Duke Deborah Duke ’72 John M. Duncan Kirsten Dunlaevy ’06 + Roberta Schreiber Dunn ’67 + Michelle Dunn Marsh ’95 + Carey R. Dunne and Kate W. Manning John and Denise Dunne David and Heather Durbin Abby H. and John B. Dux + Gretchen Dykstra Lloyd G. Dyson Jr. John Q. Easton and Sem C. Sutter + Alexandra Eaton ’07 Miriam Eaves Dr. David G. Ebersole ’74 + David Ebony and Bruce Mundt + Barbara A.* and Lawrence M. Edelman Mindy Edelman Nancy L. Edelstein ’48 + Teri Edelstein and Neil Harris Gerard Edery Hildegard Frey Edling ’78 + Linda Edmunds ’62 + Andrea and Donald Edwards + Fiona Edwards ’11 Robert and Ann Egan Lance Ehrenberg and Terry Sidell Jodi Eichler-Levine Solveig Botnen Eide Drs. Julia Eilenberg and Ron Goldman Hal and Valery Einhorn Susan Anderman Einhorn and David Little + Evan Eisenberg Sarah Elizabeth Elia ’06 + Nick Eliopulos Karen Elkin Yelena Elkind ’05 Rosalie Elkinton Monica C. Elkinton-Englund, Esq. ’03 + Jordan Ellenberg Joan Elliott ’67 + Matthew A. Elliott ’01 + Robert and Jean Elliott Robyn Ellis ’10 Chad Elson Michael ’69 and Sharon B. ’68 Elswit + Marcia Ely and Andrew McKey + Erkan Emre Michael I. Ennis ’97 + Sarah C. Ennis and John D. Ruff Lauran P. Epstein ’88 and Thomas E. Ballinger ’86 + Lisa B. Epstein ’76 + Mitchell D. Epstein Rachel Erdheim ’03 Abigail Erdmann

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Luise M. Erdmann Alexander Eriksen ’10 + Patricia and Dr. Roy Eriksen + Peter G. Eschauzier ’62 + Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Eschenlauer Dr. Vivian L. Eskin + Barbara E. Etkind and Jack A. Luxemburg + Elyse Ettinger Catherine Eugenio ’12 Prof. Tabetha Leigh Ewing ’89 Daniel M. Faber and Dr. Rachelle L. Shaw Dr. Carole Fabricant ’65 + Patricia Falk + Nicole J. Fanarjian ’90 Bart Farell and Dr. Diane Matza + Ginger Farley Patricia Lee Farley ’67 + Andrew T. Farquhar ’09 David Farron Patricia A. Fecher Ava N. Fedorov ’02 Dr. Leonora K. Feeney ’57 Dr. Leslie G. Feher ’66 Deborah Fehr ’77 + Jennifer Feilen ’87 + Thalia A. Feilen, Esq. ’90 Benjamin Feingold ’06 Meredith A. Feinman and Eric Seiff + Milly and Arnold Feinsilber + Dr. and Mrs. Mark Feldman + Elizabeth Felicella ’89 June and Peter Felix Francisco Feliz Linda Fell Marvin C. Fell ’77 and Caridad T. Fell + Estate of Alfred T. Felsberg ’41 John B. Ferguson and Valeri J. Thomson ’85 + Kirk P. and Robert H. Ferguson Abigail L. Ferla ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Paul ’70 J. Ferla + Aaron Fernandes Ward Feurt ’69 + Joseph and Laurie Fichter William Field ’09 Dr. Peter Filkins and Susan Roeper + Mary Finch and Michael Tersoff + Stacy Fine-Hager ’87 Mark Finell ’73 Dr. Carole Fink ’60 Anne N. Finkelstein ’80 Andres Finkielsztain ’99 Francis Finlay and Olivia J. Fussell David and Tracy Finn Emmajane Finney and Dr. Lloyd Steffen Penelope M. Finocchiaro Lilja M. Finzel ’69 + Mariel Fiori ’05 and Japheth Wood Richard and Catherine S. Fischer ’79 + Doucet Fischer David Fisher and Pearl Beck + Faith Fisher ’95 Drs. Lana and Ralph Fishkin David Fishman and Stephanie Salomon Heidi S. Fiske Kevin W. Fitz Patrick ’67 John T. and Karen J. Fitzgerald Anne Stewart Fitzroy Kevin R. Flach and Merideth W. McGregor Laura Flax Jeanne E. Fleming ’70 Patricia B. Fleming John E. Fletcher + Matthew Fleury and Elise Passikoff

Deborah and Thomas Flexner Dylan Flynn ’06 + Luisa E. Flynn Dr. Pamela A. Foelsch ’87 Lisa Folb ’93 John Foreman Alysha Forster-Westlake Deborah and Francis Fortier Edward Foss and Margaret Inderhees Kevin R. Foster ’92 and Donna Jarvis + Gwynne M. Fox ’84 Alexandros Fragkopoulos ’11 Sonia Franchi and Gilberto L. Pereira Donald Frank and Ronnie Rom Isabelle Frank Jill S. Frank Stefanie L. Frank Bonnie Low Frankel ’69 Natalie W. Franz ’05 + Mary Ann Free Samantha R. J. Free Dr. Mark S. Freedman ’73 + Kent Freeman Hannelore Freire Jo and Rich French Todd French Donald C. Fresne Catherine Freudenberg Bianca A. Frias ’12 Ellen Fried Jonathan Friedan Ann Friedenheim ’81 Michele Friedler Daniel Friedman ’66 + Diana Hirsch Friedman ’68 + Rev. Charles D. Friou ’46 Merle L. Froschl Richard Fuchs and Judith Hochman Emily Rutgers Fuller Dr. Ericka S. Fur and Selwyn B. Goldberg Derek L. Furr Dick and Eileen Furth Isabella Furth Ann and Mirko Gabler Dr. Marilyn G. and Mark G. Gabriel David D. Gabrielson Frances A. and Rao Gaddipati + Christopher Gagstetter Mary C. Gallagher Megan Gallagher Suzanne Gallant ’83 Hon. Louise Gruner Gans ’55 + Sharon E. Garbe ’83 + Ruth Garbus ’59 Jacqueline Michaels Gardner ’55 Jeanne Gardner ’12 Drs. Ellen L. and Luigi R. Garibaldi Judy A. Garlan Andrew Garnett-Cook ’95 + Kathryn Garofalo Matthew C. Garrett ’98 Nazly Garrido Kenneth A. Garzo ’69 + Christine Gasparich ’08 Daiva Gasperetti Leah Gastler ’11 Margaret Elizabeth Gatza ’07 Connor Gaudet ’04 + Constance G. Gavrich Aleksandra and Junusz Gawrysiak + Elizabeth A. Gaynes James J. Gebhard Alexander I. Geddes David J. Geil ’92 Carl H. Geisler ’64 Ann and Peter Geismar +

Tom and Joan Geismar Joseph W. and Joyce Gelb + Mneesha I. Gellman ’03 Hakan Ahmet Genc Onur Genc Christine A. George ’07 Jennifer M. George Alexandru Georgescu Richard J. Gerber ’71 Scott Gerber Dr. Shira J. Gertz ’97 Leah Gesoff Tavit Geudelekian ’05 Jorge Giannareas Caleb Gibbs and Charlotte Gibbs ’02 Kazimier Gieraltowski Ann Gifford Elisabeth Giglio Andrea Lynn Gilbert and Dr. Clyde Wendell Smith David J. Gilbert Elizabeth Gilbert Marvin and Maxine Gilbert Nathan Gilfenbaum + Susan H. Gillespie Isabel Gillies Gale Gillis-Carter ’79 Laurie Gilmore + Rick Gladstone + Katharine Glanbock ’10 Alan L. Glaser ’68 + Sam Glazer and Elise Siegel Maxine and William C. ’69 Gleason Jr. + Alysha Glenn ’09 + Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Glinert Dr. Jeremy Gluck and Jan Singer + Jennifer Glynn ’00 Bonnie T. Goad Benjamin Godsill John Ronald Goehlich ’56 + Terry Goggin Jay Golan and Rabbi Barat Ellman + Sophie Ellman Golan ’10 Anne Marie Gold Mims and Burton Gold Arthur Goldberg Amy Goldenberg Queen Golder ’10 Marsha P. and Melvin Goldfine + Susan Goldin Halley Goldman Matthew K. Goldman ’11 Johnanna Goldschmid + Howard W. Goldson Ken Goldstein Brian Goldston Elizabeth Cornell Goldwitz ’89 and Robert L. Goldwitz ’75 Michelle Gomez Carmen L. Gonzalez Barbara Mintzer Good and Howard A. Good ’73 Dr. Kevin J. and Laurie A. Goodluck Dr. Michael H. and Philippa M. Goodman Richard J. Goodman ’73 Eban Goodstein Marvin Goodstein Nancy B. Goodstein ’87 Maxwell H. and Victoria Goodwin Andrea Gordon Lawrence and Cynthia Gordon Mark Craig Gordon Naomi and Roger Gordon Samuel L. Gordon Jr. Stanley and Anne Gordon + Jean-Marc Gorelick ’02 +

Michael R. Goth ’69 + Reiko A. Goto William P. Gottlieb ’69 + Judith Kateb Grace Kim Grady Lawrence and Lorna Graev Busy Graham Elizabeth Graham ’05 + Nancy A. Graham Dr. Thomas Wentworth Graham ’74 Rev. Wm. and Kathryn Graham + Megan Granat Marie and Robert Graninger Matthew Grant Alison Granucci + Sandy Graznow and Jim Kearns Sallie E. Gratch ’57 + Stephanie M. and William A. Gray Dr. Judith Green ’61 + Ralph Green Susan Zises Green Thomas A. Green + Robert T. Greenbaum ’92 and Kara L. Miller ’93 + Gerald and Gretchen Greenberg + Jonathan Bernard Greenberg ’13 Dr. Joy P. and Robert J. Greenberg + Richard H. Greenberg Richard I. Greenberg Adam N. Greene ’06 Brian Alden English Greene ’04 Jonathan E. Greene ’65 Ellen and Norton Greenfeld + Nan and David Greenwood Dr. Vartan Gregorian Maureen W. Gregory + Michael A. Gregory ’08 Rachel Grella-Harding ’87 Tanya A. Grice ’94 Jon E. Griesser ’04 + Erika and Thomas Griffin Harriet R. Griffin Sheryl Griffith + Vive Griffith Susan Nicholson Grigsby ’82 Catherine A. Grillo ’82 Talbott D. and John R. Grimm Deborah S. Grinberg Andrew and Mariah Groat Andrea E. Gross Eric Gross ’72 + Hannah S. Gross ’71 and Mark A. Gross ’69 + Helen S. Gross ’64 Katharine J. Grosscup Joanne F. Gruber Marilyn Merians Grubstein George Grunebaum Pia F. Gschossmann ’94 Ana Guaty and Ricardo R. Martinez + Joseph Gubbay and Leslie Salzman + Joseph Gubernick Joseph Guerin ’09 Ana Guerrero Rob Guerriere Sara J. Guevara ’07 Annette A. Guisbond Gulay Gulpinar Helen Gunter Jacob Gurland-Pooler ’10 and Hazel M. Gurland-Pooler ’99 Glen A. Gurner and Maureen L. O’Donoghue Prof. Marka Gustavsson and Prof. John Halle Nicholas Gutfreund

* deceased |

Daniel and Susan Gutkin + Len Gutkin ’07 Loren and Gregory Gutter Kimberly L. Haas Gary M. Haber ’70 Peter Haffner ’06 Michael Haggerty ’01 Jessica Hahn + Margaret R. Hahn and Stephen R. Stern Prof. and Mrs. Kenneth Haig Peter Hajnal John Halbrooks and Kathleen McKool + Nathan Hale Gilbert and Mary Hales Melissa Haley Angela Hall Elisabeth and Howard Hall Kristen Hall and Rich Kronbichler Susan E. A. Hall Liora R. Halperin Isaac Halpern ’93 John Hambley ’06 Abigail T. Hamilton Denise A. and Michael D. Hamilton + Sally S. Hamilton William Hammerstein ’87 Frederick Fisher Hammond + Jennie S. Han Joan C. Hand ’65 David A. Hanks John and Lisa Hannigan Pamela Hanson + Rosemary and Graham Hanson + Sarah Hanson Christopher Harada ’10 Dr. Evelyn J. Harden + Jason Harootunian + Bessina R. Harrar ’84 Alan W. and Evelyn L. Harris David A. Harris Heather Lea Harris ’82 + Stephen Harrison Vie Harrison Dr. Rebecca L. Harris-Warrick ’70 + Jeffrey J. and Kimberly A. Harrow Beth A. Hart Julie E. Hart ’94 + Martha Hart ’05 + Melissa Hart Kathryn Ann Hartman ’03 + Philip D. Hartman ’79 Tameka L. Harvey Andrew Harwell Nancy C. Hass and Bob Roe Stephen Haswell-Todd Nathan Hauenstein Rev. Douglas B. ’50 and Mrs. Elizabeth ’51 Haviland Julie Hayashi and Richard Tom Andrew Hays ’03 Catherine Hazard ’76 Dr. Douglas and Nancy Hazzard Marie C. Nugent Head and James C. Marlas Susan Heath and Rodney Paterson Jill S. Heavenrich Christine K. Heffernan Louis Heilbronn ’10 Thomas M. Heineman and Chieko Yamazaki Anne C. Heller Dorothy and Leo Hellerman + Deborah and Dr. Jesse Hellman Sandra A. Hemans Nancy S. Henderson ’77 + Delmar D. Hendricks +

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Dr. Sherry L. Henig Elizabeth Henkle ’11 Marlene Hennessy Emilie and William Henry Fritz and Nancy Henze Geraldine L. Henze Robert A. Herbert Derek B. Hernandez ’10 Simon J. Hernandez Zulma M. Hernandez ’91 + Margaret Herrity Joanne Pines Hersh ’53 + Susan Hewitt Juliet Heyer Florian Hild Georgia Hill ’03 Jane M. Hill ’68 + Kurt T. Hill ’72 Jennifer S. Hillis ’90 Lillian T. Hilton Gabriel Hindin ’99 David Hirsch ’70 Jack Hirschfeld ’59 + Linda Hirshman + Ann and Steven H. Hirth Maya Hislop ’07 Daisy Ho and Hontau Lee Gary C. Hodges Kenneth P. Hodges Dwight Hodgson ’03 Dr. John and Shelagh Hodson + Susan Hoehn Ben D. Hoen ’06 Jo Anne and Albert C. Hoffman Eric Hoffman ’81 Inge Schneier Hoffmann ’50 + Susan Hoffman-Pletter + Linda A. Hokin Jeanne S. Holden ’77 Jane N. Holland and Thomas Jenik + Charles F. Hollander ’65 + Logan Thomas Hollarsmith Maren A. Holmen ’00 Patricia and Michael Holmes Richard Holt Jennifer Holup ’07 Suzanne B. Holzberg David R. Homan ’01 Lynda E. Honberg Maggie Hopp ’67 + Anthony Horn Mady Hornig Cindy Loraine Horowitz ’05 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Horowitz Mahfug Hossain ’09 Tanya P. and Thomas L. Hotalen + Elizabeth D. and Robert Hottensen + Brenda Hou and Guang-Wen Xing Lisa Houlgrave Anna B. Houston Heather and Richard Houstoun April Howard ’06 Emily Howard Katherine B. Howard Mary E. Howard Christine and David Howe Kennedy Howe ’10 Simon Howe ’11 Cary Steven Howie ’97 + Andrej and Iveta Hrabovcak + Maurice Hryshko ’85 Amanda and Sam Hsiao Joy Hsiao Meredith Hudak ’09 Deborah A. Hudson + Olivia N. Huffman

Hannah C. Hughes ’11 Tyler B. Hughes Alice C. Huige ’62 Tellervo Huima + Janny Huisman and Todd Silverblatt + Adela and William T. ’69 Hulbert Mary and Ron Hunt Jennifer A. Hunter ’87 + Kirsten Peterson Hunter ’96 Donald Hurowitz ’65 + Elizabeth Hurowitz Laurie Brueckner Husted Susan Hyacinth David Hyman ’11 Burcin Icdem Rocco G. Ilardi Ursula Ilse-Neuman Lysa Ingalsbe ’00 David Irons and Julie Clark Boak Henry R. Irving and Katherine L. Olivier + Lisa Isaacs ’84 Neil Isabelle John Iselin ’10 Josephine Lea Iselin William J. Iselin Jay and Lynda Isenberg Chiara Issa ’05 Morimi and Midori Iwama David S. and Susan R. Jackson + Constance and Edwin Jacob + Eric W. Jacobson Jennifer Jacobson Drs. Mary Jacobus and Reeve Parker Robert A. Jacoby ’87 + David Jaffe Elizabeth Jaffe Debra A. James Vivien James ’75 and Michael Shapiro ’75 + Hannah Janal ’04 Mark B. Janett Liz Jankowski Denise Jarvinen Lisa M. Jarvis ’97 Ira Jay and Paula Bertin Rajive I. Jayawardhane ’94 + John Jeffery and Judith Vecchione Daniel Jenkins Sydney Owens Jenkins Jr. ’96 Robert A. Jensen ’68 + Richard Jenseth and Suzanne Raffel-Jenseth Joel Jepson Katherine Johnescu Charles G. and Helga H. Johnson Jacqueline Johnson Julie H. ’92 and Todd L. ’88 Johnson Kathryn S. Johnson ’07 Lee D. Johnson Miani Johnson + Oliver Johnson Rebeccah Johnson ’03 + Roger A. Johnson ’68 and Catherine Sheehan + Suzanna Gough Johnson Vernon Clark Johnson Catharine W. Johnstone Barton and Debby Jones + Brant C. Jones ’97 Gavin Jones ’03 Melissa B. and Dr. Vance M. Jones + Stella L. Jones ’09 Jan Jorgensen ’81 China Jorrin ’86 and Anne H. Meredith ’86 +

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Supporters, continued Miraflore Joseph ’10 Toni Josey ’02 and Allen Josey + Susan Joslin ’74 + Maryam Jowza ’01 John H. Juhl ’72 + Kim Jurney ’97 Karen Kaczmar Jenette Kahn Arvin Kakekhani Martin Kalish Eva Kamer ’08 Marc and Maxine Kamin Melinda and Peter Kaminsky + Leona A. Kanaskie ’86 Cynthia Kane ’02 Patty L. and Robert F. Kane + Joseph A. Kanon Gary W. Kansteiner Roseanne Kanter ’69 + Anita Kantor Jennifer Kapczynski ’93 Constance E. Kaplan ’52 Eben I. Kaplan ’03 + Gerald Kaplan Harvey M. Kaplan and Audrey L. Zucker Marjorie S. Kaplan and Michael F. Stanislawski Valerie and Darren Kaplan Mursel Karadas Jeton and Teuta Karahoda Demetrios and Susan Karayannides + Joern Karhausen + Tina Karkera Roland Karlen Profs. Daniel Karpowitz and Laura Kunreuther Burton R. Kassell Michael A. Katell ’89 James A. Katis Vanessa Katon ’09 Raina Kattelson Georgia and Sumner N. Katz Ms. Elizabeth Kauffman ’87 and Mr. Robert Liroff ’88 Susan Kaufman Linda L. Kaumeyer Robert E. Kaus Burak Kaya Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos ’82 Edith Kealey and Joseph DiBari Rod and Caroline Keating Prof. Felicia Keesing and Richard Ostfeld James R. Kellerhouse Onnalee K. Kelley Charlotte Mandell Kelly ’90 and Robert Kelly John and Mary Kelly + Jessica Post Kemm ’74 + Dan and Susan Kemp Chris Kendall ’82 Katherine Kennedy Francoise and Dr. William Kenney + Katherine E. Kenney ’13 The Keon-Vitale Family + Lisa R. Kereszi ’95 Carol Kessler ’91 + Frederick R. and Rose Kessler Lee S. Kessler ’78 David and Janet E. Kettler + Hargobind S. Khalsa ’09 Nella Khanis Andrew H. Kidd and Dianne M. Ross Leah Killeen + Mbilizi D. Kilongo and Rutega Kinja

60 honor roll of donors

Sung-ae Kim Jordan M. Kincaid Nora E. Kindley ’00 Benjamin King ’03 Carole King and Dennis Woodruff Charles and Katherine King Diana Niles King Michael M. and Ruth S. King Terry L. King Mahinder S. Kingra April Diane Kinser Tommy Kirchmeier ’98 + Marilyn Kirchner Robert S. Kirigin ’76 + Pamela Fairbanks Kirkpatrick ’71 + Zachary Kitnick ’07 Cary Kittner ’79 + Erik Kiviat ’76 + Zina Klapper ’73 and Douglas Zwick ’75 + Monique Klares Irving and Rhoda E. Kleiman Albert and Kathleen Klein Josh Klein and Beatrice Weinberger William W. Klein ’12 Albert Kleine ’10 Harold and Raquel Kleinfeld Kristina E. Klemetti ’02 Carina Kleter Deirdre Kloh Taylor Klose Mary Susan Knauss ’81 Christopher Knight Jacquelyn and Christopher Knight Renata Ko ’03 Wolfram Koeppe Bianca Koerfer Dr. Amy Kohn ’77 Jerome H. Kohn Kristin Kokal Bozena Komaniecka Nicholas Kombogiannis ’97 Patti Q. Konopka ’68 + Bastiaan Kooiman ’53 + Douglas A. Koop Eric Koopmann ’64 + Rose and Josh Koplovitz Elinor Kopmar ’52 and Israel Kopmar + David M. Korn ’83 Polly Kornblith Kenneth Kosakoff ’81 Robert L. B. Koster Mariko A. Koyamatsu Chloe A. Kramer Judy A. Kramer ’74 Julie Kramer Richard B. Kraus ’55 Kim G. Krause ’94 + Catharine Krellenstein Kathleen Kremins Miles M. Kreuger ’54 Jay L. Kriegel and Kathryn McAuliffe Joel N. Krieger ’93 Alvin Krinsky Mary Ann Krisa Tony Kristic ’10 Simone Krug ’10 Sveta Ksenfontova Dr. Nicholas T. Ktistakis ’83 Alexander Kuc ’08 Linda M. and Willliam P. Kucera Drs. Regina Kuliawat and Frank Sun + Julie A. Kumble and Bruce E. Watson Judith M. Kunoff Steven and Judith Kunreuther Amy M. Kupferberg ’88

Helaine Kushner ’53 David Kutz and Ruth Dresdner Garry Kvistad + Ronald T. Labaco ’02 Clarisse Labro ’02 W. Benjamin Lackey ’91 + Liza Lagunoff ’83 Joy Lai ’03 Debra Laks and Robert Marx + Jangmu Lama ’11 Gara LaMarche and Lisa Mueller Phyllis B. Lambert Taylor Lambert ’11 + Eva M. Lammers Drs. Cynthia and Stephen LaMotte Sylvie Casteuble Lancino Rory Lancman Bodhi Landa ’10 Emily V. Landau ’07 Tia J. Landau ’84 + Lisa Aldin Landley ’76 Prof. and Mrs. David Landweber Hugo and Oksana Lane Debra I. and Jonathan Lanman James A. and Joyce Lapenn Connie Laport Jean Roger Laraque and Maggy Charles Adrienne S. Larys ’67 Jurvis J. LaSalle Jr. ’03 Maureen B. Lashlee Carol Lashof and William Newton + Jane T. Laudi ’76 Dr. Stephanie Laudi Fiona M. Laugharn ’12 James and Justine Laugharn + Prof. Ann M. Lauterbach Andrew T. Lawrence ’89 Michael Lawrence ’65 Wayne Lawson + Ruth Lawyer and Donald N. Sunderland Carol ’65 and Spencer I. ’64 Layman + Carolyn Lazard ’10 Dr. Charles R. and Christine M. Lazarus Jonathan Leader Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Linda Leblanc Eugene L. Lebwohl ’74 Myron Ledbetter Joshua S. Ledwell ’96 + Beth Ledy Carol Lee Craig H. Lee ’12 Debra A. Lee Eva Lee ’87 Helena Lee + Maurice Dupont Lee Sue Lee Dr. and Mrs. Gary Lefer Beverly Leffers Christine LeGoff ’86 Christian Lehmann ’09 + Monica M. Lehmann ’98 Carole M. Leichtung ’59 + Stephanie R. Leighton ’80 Fatima and Irving Leijssius Warren Leijssius ’04 Dr. Robert S. Lemon Jr. ’61 Sarah A. Lemon Paul and Christine Lent E. Deane and Judith S. Leonard Karen B. Leonard Istvan Leovits Carolyn J. and Richard Leprine Bi Lan Leung Kiche A. Leung Margaret Leung

Daniel A. Lev + Kenneth and Sandra Levan Chris and Mary Levenhagen Jeff and Joannie Levenson Dr. Robert G. Levenson ’67 + Robert B. Leverds Mrs. Elinor Wallach Levin ’54 + Mr. and Mrs. Michael Levin Raquel and Lear Levin Bette A. Levine ’59 Steven Levine Susan J. Levine ’87 Andrew Jay Levinson and Deborah Reik + Nicholas I. Levitin Laura S. Levitt Lee I. Levitt Iris Levy ’76 + Martin P. Levy Richard H. Levy Moira Eva Lewandowski Brent M. Lewis ’09 + Delmena Lewis Gerald F. Lewis + Linda M. Lewis Maureen Lewis and Lewis Thornton + Richard A. Lewis ’58 + Richard C. Lewit ’84 and Alison J. Guss + Weigang and Yun Li Isaac Liberman ’04 Maricel Liboro + Rudy and Joann Licul Kathleen Liddle Mimi and Charles Lieber Bennett M. Lieberman ’91 Michael Lieberman ’72 Maureen H. Liebler ’68 + Michael and Joyce Liebman Laura Liebman Ellen D. Liebowitz Stuart E. Liebowitz Michele Widrick Liendecker ’90 Dorothy M. Lifka ’75 Philip H. Lilienthal Melissa Cohn Lindbeck ’03 Marilyn Lindenbaum ’69 + Vicki E. Lindner ’66 Jean R. and Robert A. Link + Elissa Moser Linowes ’83 Blanca Lista ’01 Robert W. Littleton and Alice Cheng Jeff E. Littrell and Sunni Won Tony and Chloe Liu Apostolos and Edith Livitsanos + Drs. Tom D. Lobe and Lori J. Marso Loey R. Lockerby ’93 + Ednah Locke-Walser and Kurt Walser + Laura Logsdon ’10 Robert Longo and Barbara Longo Sukowa + Mark A. and Susan E. Lopeman + Catherine Lopez ’07 Linda Lopez Susan Lorence + Richard M. Lorr ’65 Marie E. and Dr. Timothy S. Loth Ellen Lourie and Burt Shulman + Joseph Lovoi ’04 Sarah Lowe ’86 Rev. William C. B. Lowe ’66 + Susan W. Lowenstein-Kitchell ’48 + Dr. Douglas Lowy Abigail R. Loyd ’99 and Owen M. Moldow ’00 + Wallace A. Loza ’63 +

Sandra and Luis Lozano Carrie A. Lucio-Zwieback ’13 Ursula Ludz Catherine A. Lugg Catherine Anne Luiggi Ia Luna Elizabeth C. ’68 and Martin M. ’69 Lundberg Patricia D. and Robert J. Lunn Christina and Joseph Lunny Ellen Lupton and Jerry L. Miller Julia Lupton Andrew Lush ’05 Arthur ’58 and Karla ’57 Lutz + Prof. Joseph Luzzi and Ms. Helena Baillie Philip Lyford ’69 + Sara Lynch-Thomason ’09 Susan M. Lyne ’87 Benjamin Lynett Mari Blumenau Lyons ’57 and Nick Lyons ’60 + Virginia Macaulay Patricia Griffin Mackie ’76 and Hugh C. Mackie + Adam MacLean ’04 Anastasia Macris and Joshua Rosenblatt Dr. Jennifer H. Madans ’73 + Holly Ann Maggio Hossein and Nazanin Mahallati Timothy Maher Stephen Mahoney Tom M. Maiello ’82 + Charles S. Maier + Dr. Irwin R. Maier Antoinette Major ’80 Frederic and Marie Malle John A. Malnichuck ’72 Rev. Kathleen C. Mandeville ’76 Marcella Mandracchia ’07 Claire and Chris Mann David Mannheimer and Carol Moonie Daniel S. Manning Inara and Maris A. Mantenieks Barbara Ward Manui ’84 Rosemary Marcellino Marsha L. Marcoe and Dr. David G. Unger Bonnie Marcus ’71 + Jed S. Marcus Efrem Marder ’73 Deanne Marein-Efron ’61 Harvey Marek + Jane and Mario Marghella Kenneth A. Margolis and Ellen Smithberg Paul Marienthal and Prof. Amii LeGendre Alina P. Marinova ’06 + Stephen A. Marion ’03 Patchen Markell Donnelly Marks Susannah W. Marks Dr. David J. Maron Kathy Marsh ’86 + Susan K. Marsh ’51 + Phyllis Marsteller Shona L. Marston + Beth Marte Charlotte G. Martin Elisabeth Martin and Michael Duddy Glenn Martin Nicholas Martin Rick Martson Lisa Marum Helen Marx

* deceased |

Tony Marzani ’68 + Laura D. M. Mascaro Lynne Maser + Marny Maslon + Alane S. Mason Mark Allen Mason ’84 + Kurtlan Massarsky ’05 Katherine Massey ’98 + John Robert Massie Sarah Phillips Mathews and John Mathews + Anna Rose Mathieson ’99 Barbara and Tom Mathieson + Emily W. Matlin D.O., P.C. ’73 Noquel A. Matos ’11 Mary B. Mattis ’93 Eline F. and Scott T. Maxwell John Dickinson May William May Angelika B. Mayer ’54 + Julia Mayer ’07 Denise Maynard John Maynard Carolyn A. Mayo ’88 Herbert Mayo Steven V. Mazie Meghan Ann Mazzacone ’03 + Ilaria Mazzocco ’08 Dianne and Salvatore Mazzulo Eric McAnly Paul W. McCarthy ’74 David O. McColloch ’09 William McColloch ’05 Ashleigh McCord ’08 Gavin P. McCormick ’88 + Thomas McCosker ’09 Paul D. McCrosson George T. McDonald Donna McDonald-Morgan ’84 + Elizabeth McGee Travis M. McGrath ’11 Barnabas McHenry Charles G. McIntosh ’55 Eric McIntyre Kathleen M. McKenna ’78 + Susan and John McKeon Jeremy McKey ’10 + Anna Bell Mclanahan ’92 Katie McLaughlin Don and Evelyn McLean Quinby H. McLellan ’09 Lauren M. McMahon ’87 Maureen M. and Patrick McManus Virginia S. McMillen Sally Martin McMurray ’48 + Emily E. McNair ’03 Matt McNaught Dr. John F. McNulty Michael D. McNulty ’77 Jennifer L. McNutt William J. McTighe Misale and Dr. Samson Mebrahtu Caroline Mecartney Mr. and Mrs. Gregor Medinger + Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Meehan Maria Megaris Dr. David Meikle Jill K. Meilus + Mr. and Mrs. Seth Melhado John Melick + Gregory Mellett and Susan Vitti + Lisa Melmed Noga Menashe and Jean-Claude Ribes Teresa Alarcon Menchaca Isak E. Mendes ’05 Marisol S. and Guillermo G. Menendez

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Susan Mentzel-Eckhardt ’89 Stacey J. Merel and Dr. Ronald W. Taffel + Angelo and Christine Merola + Nicole and Gregory Mestanas Amy Metroka + Carlin Meyer + Gale and William Meyer + Heinz-Dieter Meyer Melanie Anne Meyer ’02 + Bart Meyers* Randolph P. Meyers Glen Mezzatesta Nikki Mezzatesta Tracy Mezzatesta Kieley Michasiow-Levy Claire Elizabeth Michie ’02 + Joanna M. Migdal Stephen Mihm + Svetlana Mikityanskiy Aron Milberg Carol H. Miller + Gregory R. Miller Jane P. Miller and Steven H. Miller ’70 + Jeffrey E. Miller ’73 + Joshua Miller ’00 and Antoinette Capaccio ’00 + Melanie Miller Morgan E. Miller ’95 + Richard I. Miller ’74 + Sequoia Miller ’12 Nancy J. Miller-Sanborn Elizabeth and Robert Milligan + Henry O. Milliken Jr. ’51 + Janet C. Mills + Rakhel Milstein ’97 Scott Milstein ’96 Dr. David T. Mintz Dr. David Paul Mirsky ’57 + Albert Misak Ursula J. Mitra Mary Moeller Gabriel R. Moffat and Molly F. Ruttan-Moffat + Christine Moh Mona Molarsky Mary W. Molo Sheila M. Moloney ’84 and Prof. John Pruitt + Bethany L. Moncada Dr. Kathlene R. Mondanaro ’88 Katherine K. Montague Jennifer Montalbano Elyse Glassberg Montiel ’77 Barry G. and Whitney M. Moore + Kimberly and Stephen A. Moore Marcos A. Morales ’90 Michael J. Moran Raymond M. Moran Amber L. and Eli Moreno Christina Garcia Moreno Frederick C. Morgan ’77 Nathaniel Morgan ’06 Yenton K. Morgan Michael Morini ’03 Anne M. Morris-Stockton ’68 + Minna S. Morse ’88 Lenina Marily Mortimer ’03 Andrea and Martin Mosbacher Gary R. Mosca ’87 + Diana J. Moser ’85 + Kimberly A. Moser Larry Moses and Susan Steinman Roy Moses + Vernon Mosheim Mark Moskowitz and Lyn Weinberg

June Moss Virginia L. Moss ’78 + Maria Mottola and John P. Loonam + Niria and Wilson Moura Joanne and Richard Mrstik Shafat Mubin ’09 Sarah E. Friedman Muchnick ’78 Craig W. Mudge ’72 + Caroline Muglia ’04 + Caroline Muir ’74 Mihir Mukhopadhaya ’13 Laura J. Muller ’90 + Elizabeth R. and Gary J. Munch + Clare Munday Julia McKenzie Munemo ’97 and Ngonidzashe Munemo ’00 + Jeffrey H. Munger Edmund M. Murphy Linda Murphy ’88 + Jennifer Murray Rebecca A. Murry ’09 Oscar W. Muscarella Judith Myers Elisabeta Nagy Wende Namkung Arthur Nasson ’85 + Richard N. Naylor ’68 Peter Neely ’07 + Hal Negbaur Dr. Gianfranco Negroponte Chris Larsen Nelson ’73 + Erika Nelson and Rich Montone Hon. Henry K. Nelson ’68 + Lee Nelson ’86 Peggy A. Nelson Dr. Vanessa Neumann Charlene O. ’49 and Mortimer Newburg + David L. Newhoff ’88 and Scarlett O’Leary ’89 Elizabeth A. Nicholas ’70 David K. Nichols + Andrew J. Nicholson ’94 Sebastian Nicolau Dr. Brian Nielsen ’71 + William L. Nieman ’68 + Stephanie Niloff Drs. Naomi Nim and Jerome Segal Sarah Ann Nisenson ’62 + Dwight and Jane Nishimura John A. Noakes ’84 Dan Noble and Catherine Orrok John Noel Bethany Nohlgren Tom Nolan ’84 + Mr. and Mrs. William T. Nolan Elizabeth A. Norris Janet L. Norris ’69 + Dr. Brianna Norton ’00 Kerri-Ann Norton ’04 Harey ’76 and Dorothy A. ’78 Nosowitz Joan Kroll Novick ’52 + Jennifer Novik ’98 Julia Nunez Lora Nunn Dr. Abraham and Gail Nussbaum Carole Obedin and Sanford Schwartz Christopher S. O’Brien ’86 Charles John O’Bryne Becky and Edward J. O’Connell Prof. Sakiko Ohashi John O’Keefe Douglas Okerson and William Williams Elizabeth J. and Sevgin Oktay + Joanna M. Oldakowski Rich O’Leary

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Supporters, continued Thelma Olsen + Martha J. Olson + Sonja L. Olson ’98 + Ms. Susan Gushee O’Malley Nadia Haji Omar ’08 Dianne S. O’Neal Jerome O’Neill Sean F. O’Neill ’97 + Ellen M. Orendorf-Carter ’69 Catherine Orentrich Susanna Orzel Dr. Maureen L. Osborne ’76 Iris M. Oseas ’52 and Jonathan Oseas ’52 + Jane E. Osgood ’75 + Samuel Osin Marilyn and Peter Oswald + Elisa Owen R. D. Owen-Wintersgill Ibrahim Alper Ozan Dwight Paine Jr. ’68 + Douglass R. Paisley + Raj Pal Tito Marques Palmeiro Anne Elizabeth Palmer ’96 Dorothy S. and Dr. Nicholas V. Palmer Lee Pang Aliki Papadopoulou and Charles Weston + Sky Pape and Alan Houghton Anne and Paul Parker + Barbara E. Parker and Dale A. Ricker Ellen Parker ’71 Floyd H. Parkman ’49 + Mary J. Parnell Cynthia O. and David W. Parr + David B. and Jane L. Parshall Jodi Passarella + Ritesh Patel Gary S. Patrik + Gary A. Patton Lucy H. Patton and David C. Petty + Nikki Patton Jonathan Paul ’04 Susan Pavane + Jason ’99 and Brandy Pavlich Andrew Ross Payton ’05 Samuel P. Peabody Gerry Pearlberg ’83 Maia Peck Dr. James F. and Mary Jo Pedulla Eileene Peeling William C. Peirce ’80 + Susan Pelosi Gennie Perez and Philippe Mouren Ralph Perez ’73 Mara B. Perkins ’72 Sondra Perl James N. Perlstein Christine Perret ’82 + Dr. David G. Perry ’67 + Dranpadi Persaud Annika Persson Eric Peters Ellen and Eric Petersen + Karen A. Peterson + Raymond D. Peterson Andrea and Jack Petras Setti-Semhal Petros ’03 Patricia Pforte ’08 + Kleanthis and Kleopatra Phili Elizabeth Phillips Jennifer Grace Phillips Sandra Sammataro Phillips ’67 Sasha Phyars-Burgess ’10

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Sybil E. Pierot ’50 + Gilberte and Yves-Andre Pierre Dianne H. Pilgrim Stacey P. Pilson ’91 Ray Piper Christine C. Pizzuti Jennifer Plassman and Bruce Polin Marika Plater ’08 Maxwell C. Platoff ’09 Becky Plattus and James A. Parrott Susan R. Playfair ’62 + Mayda and Dr. Ronald Podell + Allen D. Poe Charles Pogacar ’10 Bruce Poli ’75 Beverly E. Pollack-Silver ’61 Steven Pollak and Robin S. Tanenbaum Tracy Pollock ’07 Nathaniel H. Polster ’47 Allen Pope Dr. Ellen J. Popenoe ’80 + Gregory Poplyk and Patrick Wiley Elizabeth Poreba Christophe L. Porsella Alexandra M. and Joseph Posadas Barbara Post Luke Potoski ’97 Dr. Katherine S. Pound + Joanna Pousette-Dart Kristi Powell David L. Powsner + Jennifer Praeger Carolyn Prescott ’87 and Ralf Jaeger + Caroline D. Preston and Christopher L. Tilghman + Susan Price Tracy J. Priest ’00 Elizabeth S. Prince ’83 Ariadne Prior-Grosch Fanny Prizant Debbie A. and Warren G. Prost Tara B. Prupis Abhay Puskoor ’08 + Nancy Ann and Thomas Qualiano + Encarnita and Robert Quinlan Justin P. Quinn Jr. and Cynthia Staples-Quinn + Richard J. Quinn Bilkis F. Qurashi Anna and Jay Rabinowitz Susan Rabinowitz and Joeal Longenecker Melanie and Philippe Radley + Florica Radu Allison F. Radzin ’88 Reazur Rahman ’04 + Peter M. Rainey ’62 Caroline E. Ramaley D’Lorah O. Ramsey-Tyler and Richard T. Tyler Katherine Randall Serena Randolph ’09 Andrew Raposo ’06 Betty Rauch + Jeffrey Scott Rawson ’02 + Katherine O. Ray ’03 Sheila Reagan Kathleen C. Reardon, Esq. ’78 Karin N. and Dr. Keith A. Rebehn Michael A. Rebell Linda J. Rebohking Parbetree Reddi Bradford H. Reed ’93 Daniel Reed ’03 George and Gail Hunt Reeke Leonard Judah Reibstein ’05 +

Heidi Reich Phyllis Reicher John A. Reiner ’74 + Carol Shoshkes Reiss Loraine Reitman ’04 Oliver Renaud-Clement Sandra Renner Stacey A. Resnikoff ’90 Karen A. and Stephen J. Ressel Carly Reynolds Anne Elizabeth Rice David Rice Elizabeth D. and Ethan P. Rice John L. Rice ’50 Leigh Rich ’08 Marcia R. Rich ’70 Paul S. Rich ’98 + Alexandra Richards ’01 Christopher T. Richards ’12 Maria Richards Nanda Richards Emilie Kate Richardson ’05 + Karen Bedrosian Richardson Peter Richman Stephen Richman Sally C. Richmond Maurice N. Richter Jr. ’53 + Pamela and William Richter Richard Eveland Riegel III Dr. Catherine K. Riessman ’60 Charles H. Rigg and Nancy J. Snudden + Robert Riggs ’08 Christopher J. Riley ’93 + Joseph M. Rinaldi and Elizabeth McClintock Susan Ritz and Lawson Shadburn Elsie Rivera ’75 Petra Riviere William G. Rivkin and Marguerite M. Soderberg + Corinne J. Robbins Veronica Robertson Amy Robinson ’13 Elizabeth Robinson ’85 Lilian I. Robinson ’98 + Renita D. Robinson David Roche and Mary Mullally Roche Margaret Roche Judith Rockefeller Abbie Rockwell, Ph.D. ’75 + Brittany Rode ’09 Claritza and Fernando Rodriguez B. A. Rogers Monica R. and Todd L. Rogers Will F. Rogers ’70 + Adam Rafi Rom ’03 Nancy B. Romer Brent Romine Robert A. Ronder, Esq. ’53 + Oren Root Kyle Rorah Carlos Rosado Jr. ’10 Diane Graham Rosasco Joan T. Rosasco Dr. George D. Rose ’63 + Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Rose Ellen Schulman Roseman ’55 + Janine Rosen ’12 Lynne V. Rosen Theodore Rosen Carolyn and Michael Rosenbaum Joan Rosenbaum Joan H. Rosenbaum Mary Helene P. Rosenbaum ’66 Michael Rosenbaum George L. Rosenberg ’39 +

Idra Rosenberg Sophie Rosenblum ’02 Eddie Rosenstein and Randi Bianco Rosenstein Dr. David Eric Rosenthal ’68 Irwin Rosenthal Estate of Janice Newman Rosenthal Molly E. Rosenthal Mark and Preetmatie Rosidivito Alfred J. and Deirdre Ross Ilse W. Ross ’49 + Phyllis Ross Michael D. Rosse ’55 + Katheryn Ross-Winnie ’02 Karen S. and Michael Rotenberg Naomi A. Rothberg Kennon V. Rothchild Dr. Naomi Fox Rothfield ’50 and Dr. Lawrence I. Rothfield + Meika A. Rouda ’93 Brenda S. Rousseau Andre and Lee Roussel Martha and Robert Rowen Peter Rowland ’07 Penelope I. Rowlands ’73 + Pamela Roy ’03 Rishin Roy and Laura Martin John Royall Joshua L. Royte ’85 Emily H. Rubin ’78 + Enid K. Rubin Kendra Littner Rubinfeld ’05 Noah B. Rubinstein ’89 + Nancy Ruddy ’74 Kara M. Rudnick ’99 + Joan D. Rueckert Josephine Ruisi and Warren Perrins Emilie A. Ruscoe ’11 John Ruskay Russ and Daughters Scott K. Russ ’67 Dale Russakoff Philip Russotti, Esq. Steve Rust Patrick Ryan ’87 Erik Ivan Rydju ’97 Josephine Sacabo ’67 and Dalt Wonk ’65 Lynne Sachs Alan B. Sacks and Annette Y. van Duren Samantha Safer ’04 + Rebecca Saletan Michele A. Salisbury David Saltonstall + Michael Salveson Dr. Michael Salwen + Myrna B. Sameth Dr. David W. Sanborn Gilbert E. Sanders + Reva Minkin Sanders ’56 + Harold S. and Patricia Sandusky Dr. Barbara E. Sang ’58 + Jade A. Santoro ’90 Lily C. Saporta-Tagiuri ’12 Barbara Sarah Penny Saranteas Mujahid T. Sarsur ’12 Diane L. Saslow ’70 + Arthur Sata ’72 + William K. Sato David Satz Natasha Saunders Lionel and Patricia Savadove Dorothy Savitch and Howard Lew Dr. John and Margaret Sawyer John D. Saywell and Lucy A. van Leeuwen

Benjamin Schaefer ’07 Anita Norma Schaffer Kathryn Schaffer ’98 + Kay B. Schaffer ’10 Kate J. Schapira ’01 Alan C. and Leigh Scharfe Monroe B. Scharff ’48 and Edwina K. Scharff ’48 + Susan E. Scheid Scott R. Scheidt Michael W. Scheringer Dr. David C. Schiffman ’61 + Lori Ann Schlachter Jane Schlubach Allison C. and Kevin G. Schmidlein Mr. and Mrs. John Schmidt Carol and Dr. Edward Schmiedecke + Rosa Schneider Josephine Schoel ’03 Barbara A. Schoenberg David M. Scholder ’90 and Tara E. Scholder ’91 + Judith A. and Morton W. Schomer Ryan Schowen David Paul Schrader Hannah Schrock ’04 Laura Schubert ’12 Scott D. Schulman Irene Z. Schultz ’48* + Carrie Schulz ’03 + Ellen Louise Schwartz ’64 Dr. Stanley I. Schwartz ’46 Ori A. Schwartzburg and Deborah G. Shulevitz Alice W. Schwarz Robert Schweich Frederick W. Schwerin Jr. Roger N. Scotland ’93 + Madison Scott ’72 + Joanne Seador Sally Sears-Mack The Sector Family (Leigh, Doug, Daniel, and Emma) John and Aija Sedlak Tony See Dr. David Segarnick ’78 and Ms. Patricia Zimic Douglas ’84 and Dena Katzen ’88 Seidel Elizabeth Seidel ’02 Susan Seidler ’74 Glenda Self Shirley and William Selin + Anne Selinger George A. Selmont Jr. ’89 Joyce and Isadore Seltzer + Pinar Sen Dagni and Martin Senzel + Daisy Sepe Thomas V. Serino ’10 + Prof. and Mrs. Gautam Sethi Sujata Sethi Maro Rose Sevastopoulos ’00 + Jeffrey M. Seward ’75 Craig C. Sewell Alexandra M. Shafer ’78 and Denis Duman + Mrs. Johanna Shafer ’67 and Rev. Michael Shafer ’66 Tara Shafer and Gavin Curran Russell M. Shane ’77 + Phyllis M. Shanley Harold M. and Myra Shapiro + Karen Shapiro ’78 and Syud Sharif Peter Shapiro ’01 Sarah Shapiro ’02

* deceased |

Denise B. and Michael D. Sharp Valerie A. Sharper ’81 Yee Stacy Shau Darla H. and Bernard M. Shaw Christie Shaw Christopher Shaw ’71 + Curt Shaw Derek B. Shaw Penny Pugliese Shaw ’58 Paul D. Sheats Elizabeth M. Sheehan David and Amy Shein John P. Shekitka MAT ’11 Catherine Shell ’11 Tyron J. Sheppard Mrs. H. Virgil Sherrill Genya N. Shimkin ’08 + Victor Shimkin Lola Shimon Claire P. Shindler ’86 Laurence Shire + Marta Shocket ’09 + Josephine Shokrian ’05 Andrew J. Shookhoff ’72 Ginger and Stephen Shore Nicholas Shore ’10 Dianne E. Shortall ’65 Ora Shtull and Michael Bendit Julius Shultz Peter M. and Stella Sichel Mackie H. Siebens ’12 Philip A. Siebert Corin Siegel ’07 Judith and Jeffrey Siegel Kat and David Siegfried ’00 Timothy J. Siftar ’89 Lisa Silber ’11 Barry Silkowitz ’71 + Aretha A. Sills ’91 Joseph P. Silovsky ’91 Cristi N. Silva James Silverberg Dara Silverman ’95 Jeremy Silverman and Shaheen Rusnd Linda S. Simkin Tomas Simko Muriel Simmons Andrew Simon ’10 David L. Simon Jr. ’86 + Elisabeth A. Simon Sonia and David L. Simon Maja Simoska and Svetislav Simoski Katherine and Ned Simpson + Molly Simpson ’08 Joseph C. Sims ’12 Mr. and Mrs. H. Lawrence Singband Betty L. Singer ’47 + Jackie Singer ’04 and Meghan Stahulak Jennifer M. Singleton ’85 Richard L. Sinreich Alan Siraco ’86 + Elena Valeryevna Siyanko Aleksandar ’09 and Isidora ’11 Skular Jennifer Skura Christopher Skutch ’85 Alan Skvirsky ’61 + Beatrice Slater Judith and Lawrence Slezak Marjorie Slome and Kenneth S. Stern ’75 + Dr. John A. and Mary Anne Smallwood + Audrey Mae Smith ’78 + Betsy Covington Smith Carole-Jean Smith ’66 + Christine Smith Christine A. Smith

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Courtney Smith + Duane and Regina Smith George A. Smith ’82 + James D. Smith Prof. Jane Ellen Smith Kevin W. Smith Lou Ann Smith and Mark Lenetsky Nathan J. Smith Patrick B. Smith and Susan Steinbrock Dr. Peter R. Smith Dr. Richard K. Smith ’65 Shirley Smithberg Magnus S. Snorrason and Adine M. Storer + Adam Snyder ’89 + Joan Snyder Robert T. Snyder Howard and Sharon Gurman Socol Susan and Dr. Meyer N. Solny John L. Solomon ’58 and Ruth L. Solomon ’57 + Rodrigo A. Solorzano Beverly and Barry Solow + Mark Sommer A. Elisabeth Sommerfelt + Carol S. Sonnenschein ’53 + Jeannie and Louis Sorell Doris A. Soroko ’67 Manuel A. and Maria-Elena Soto Arthur and Donna Soyk + Clive A. Spagnoli ’86 + Deneen S. Spann Robert L. Specht Sharon J. Spector ’83 Tami I. Spector, Ph.D. ’82 + Cynthia Spencer Lynn M. Spitz ’81 Dr. David H. Spodick ’47 Archana Sridhar ’98 and Kevin O’Neill + Raissa St. Pierre ’87 + Heidi R. Stahl ’86 Eve Caroline Stahlberger ’97 + Mary Jo Stallone Heidi Stamas Laura E. Stamas ’97 + Helene L. Stancato + Joseph A. Stanco Jr. ’99 + Lisa Foley Stand ’80 Brian M. and Elizabeth M. Stanley + Christine Stanton William N. Stavru ’87 + David Steeves ’04 Andrea J. Stein ’92 + Joan M. Stein + Marion P. Stein ’48 + Deborah Steinberg ’00 + Freda Steinberger Barbara and Jeffrey Stevens Kristen Stevens Theresa Adams Stevens ’86 + JodiAnn Stevenson John Stevenson Eden E. Stewart ’89 Michael Stiller ’83 Ella Stocker ’08 James Stockham Molly F. Stockley ’96 Alexander J. Stokas Stephanie Stokes Vincent S. Stoll ’85 + Levi R. Stolove ’00 Michael J. Stolper Michael A-B Stone ’00 + Lyndsey Stonebridge Noreen F. Storch +

Francis E. Storer Jr. + Ronald and Marianna Stout Denise L. Straus ’75 Sarah Smith Strauss ’93 + Drs. Marilyn J. and Robert A. Strawbridge + Douglas A. and Micki J. Strawinski + Dr. Jack D. and Mrs. Sonia M. Street Mary T. Strieder Evangeline Strimboules Mark E. Stroock II ’47 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stukenborg Drs. Albert ’48 and Eve M. ’49 Stwertka + Gretchen E. L. Suess ’95 Corey Sullivan ’03 Dale D. and Jane Marie Sulzle Carol Summers ’51 + Daksha M. Susania Cheryl N. and John D. Susman Mark Sutton Deborah K. Swan Karen Elizabeth Swann + Ann D. and Peter O. Swanson + Stephanie Swartout Mary Beth Sweet Wieslawa Swierzbinski Elizabeth K. Swoboda ’09 + Luke Syson Jacek and Katarzyna Szymanowski Dr. Marika Ruth Glixman Taaffe ’67 + Margaret and William Tabb Kiyo C. Tabery ’76 Dr. Carla E. Sayers Tabourne ’69 + Florence Tager Reiko Tahara Lance Tait ’78 Dee Edward ’75 and H. Leanne Talley Aparna Tambar ’95 Bernardo Tamez Chen Tamir ’07 Corina Tanasa ’00 + John Tancock Frank Tang Joanna Tanger ’07 Stephen Tappis Christina Tarnopolsky Alexandra Tatarsky ’07 Stephen W. Tator ’51 + Sylvia Taub-Ames ’74 Adele and Ronald S. Tauber + Art and Jeannette Taylor Charles Cameron Taylor ’96 Jessica and Peter Tcherepnine Marlene Tejada ’09 Tamara Telberg Lynn Temenski Barbara and Alan Tepper + Daniel Terna ’09 Jane R. Terry Mila Tewell Rev. Sarah and Nicholas Thacher + Thomas D. Thacher Patricia Thatcher + Carolee Thea Darius L. Thieme ’51 James W. Thomas ’92 Scott E. Thomas ’85 + Alessandro J. Thompson ’92 Paul Jonathan Thompson ’93 + Sarah Robins Thompson ’79 + Sonia Thompson Tina Thuermer ’73 Jessie Thurston ’02 Craig Thurtell Helene Tieger ’85 and Paul Ciancanelli +

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Supporters, continued Patricia Laub Tieger ’81 Evelyn Tillerson Glenn and Wendy Tillman George Tingo Lisa Tipton Taun N. Toay ’05 John R. Tobin J. Terry Todd Teri Tomaszkiewicz Michael and Melodie Tompkins Eileen Tomson + Anya Rose Topolski Amy Toth ’00 + Dr. Kim M. Touchette ’77 + Reuben Traite ’04 Phuc ’95 and Susan ’96 Tran + Kristin Trautman Seth B. Travins ’97 Carole Travis Dr. Toni-Michelle C. Travis ’69 + Lora L. Tredway ’71 + Kate (Carnevale) Trimble ’94 Cynthia M. Tripp ’01 Prof. Eric Trudel Arthur G. Trupp ’78 Randy J. Tryon Junko Tsuchida + Kari Tsushima Thu Dat Tu ’97 + Elijah Seth Tucker ’05 Dr. Gregory E. Tucker ’54 Robert S. Tucker Elizabeth C. and Dr. William G. Tuel Jr. + Alexandra Tuller and Dean Temple Robert E. Tully Florence D. Tumasz + Judith Tumin Mandy Tumulty ’94 + Carol and Mitchel Turitz Anne Turyn Vivian Ubell Dr. Christopher G. Uchrin and Lisa C. Uchrin ’85 + Emiljana Ulaj ’12 Jeremy W. Ulman ’12 Beth A. Umland Karen Unger + Christopher Uraneck ’99 + Alison Vaccarino ’87 Anne Vachon ’10 Arturo Valbuena David Valdini ’06 Joseph Vallese ’04 Scott D. Vanderbilt Emmet Patrick Van Driesche ’05 Roy Van Driesche and Sheila Marks + Elizabeth and Dr. Gregory Van Gundy + Hilary and Ralph E. Vankleeck Susan Van Kleeck ’78 + Elizabeth H. Van Merkensteijn Mary and Richard van Valkenburg + Al Varady ’88 Daniela Varon Lisa A. Vasey ’84 Sara Vass ’70 Gilbert and Patricia Veconi David and Charmaine Velez Jill J. and Paul T. Vella Cornelius R. Verhoest Alberto Verrilli Victor Victoria ’80 + Mark L. Viebrock ’76 + Dr. Paul F. Vietz ’52 + Diya Vij ’08

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Donna Viola Elizabeth C. Visuvalingam Anthony Vitale Jane Kagan Vitiello Daina Vitin Ernest L. Vogliano Jr. Lawrence Volper ’71 April Volponi Beagan S. Wilcox Volz ’96 + Vanessa Volz ’00 Beth Wachter Lisa Wager and Robert Liff Martha D. Wagner ’53 + Nathan Wagoner ’80 Sybil Wailand Elizabeth B. Walcott John Waldes Holly C. Walker ’62 Marla and Brian Walker Stafanie and Daniel S. Walker Jonathan M. Wall Carole Wallace ’52 + Pamela J. Wallace ’87 + Mrs. Thomas Wallace Edith M. ’64 and Peter Wallis ’64 Edward P. and Jane Walsh M. Susan Walter Andrea A. Walton Anne S. and Dr. George F. Waltuch ’56 Siwen Wang Esther F. Wanning ’66 Margaret D. Warner ’79 Arete B. S. Warren Arnold S. Warwick ’58 Gregory and Nancy L. Warwick Dr. Kristin B. Waters ’73 Alisse Waterston Gladys Watson ’82 Delma-Jean Watts ’98 and Matthew G. Turgeon ’98 John W. Waxman ’62 Marshall Webb Joan Canter Weber Jonathan Wechsler Marilyn R. Wechter ’73 Dr. Barbara Weil ’76 Dr. David S. and Miriam W. Weil + Alexandra Weinbaum Jonah Noel Weiner ’02 + John O. Weinert ’07 Don and Barbara Weinreich + Wendy L. Weinrich Alexander C. Weinstein ’07 Ann J. and Joel H. Weinstein Paul H. Weinstein ’73 + Jean M. and Michael A. Weisburger Andrea B. Weiskopf ’95 Frida Weisman Lisa Weisman Michele T. Weisman David Weiss ’86 and Martina Arfwidson Hilton Weiss + Mark and Jane Weiss Noel N. Weiss ’58 Robert Weiss Arlene D. and William Weissman Lois F. Weitzner ’49 + Daniel T. Weller ’60 Diane Wells + Melinda M. and Steven A. Wellvang Courtney C. Wemyss Count Nicholas Wenckheim Jann S. Wenner Jack and Jill Wertheim Mary C. Weston ’12

Barbara Jean Weyant + Karen Schaar Whale and Robert Whale + Robert and Melanie Whaley + Francis H. Whitcomb ’47 + Amy K. White Anne and Alexander W. White Susan White C. Denese Whitney Serena H. Whitridge Gail Wiederwohl ’69 + Dr. Paul T. Wielebinski Gabriel Wiesenthal Barbara Crane Wigren ’68 + Daniel Wilbur ’09 + Thomas M. Wild Aida and Albert Wilder Brian and Sharon Wiles-Young + Catherine R. Williams Catherine S. Williams ’78 Chester Williams Debra J. Williams Dr. Dumaine Williams ’03 and Erika Williams ’04 + Dr. Kathryn R. Williams ’67 + Molly O. Williams ’08 Robert C. Williams and Ilene V. Yates Lydia A. Willoughby ’03 Jocelyn Wills Dr. Lawrence A. Wills and Dorry Joy Alysa M. Wilson Gregory A. Wilson Gretchen Louise Wilson ’97 Jonathan M. Wilson Lyndon A. S. Wilson Jr. Margaret R. Wilson Matt Wing ’06 + Martin and Yolanda Winn Ezra M. Winston ’09 Peter and Maria Wirth Mary Wise Daniel and Nanci Wishnoff William T. Wissemann ’12 Matthew F. Witchell ’84 Devera and Michael Witkin Lauren Wittels Gary M. and Karen N. Witzenburg Deborah and Steven Wohl C. Theodore Wolf Kate Wolf ’03 Lauren Wolf Ken Wolfe William Wolz + Chung Sun Yoo Woo ’54 Chanel M. Wood ’08 Gloria E. Wood Drs. Craig T. and Martha E. Woodard

Neela A. Woodard ’93 Jack K. Woodruff ’08 Kimberly D. Woods Richard T. Woods David and Meliza E. Woolner Leslie Wright Richard T. Wright + Amy R. Wrynn ’87 Kam Chu Wu Lynn Davis and Rudolph Wurlitzer Joan Wyant Sharon Wyse Qi Xu ’11 Inna Yangarber Kumiko Yano Onur Yavuzyilmaz Prof. Anna E. Yeatman Susan Yecies Max A. Yeston ’08 + Joan Mielke Yost ’90 Dylaina Young ’03 Liza Young ’11 Jessica Yudelson ’61 Sarah Yuen Drs. Benjamin and Lisa R. Zablocki Dr. Theodore Zanker ’56 + Mike and Kathy Zdeb + Julie F. and Marc D. Zeitlin Marvin Zelman Irene Zelterman Kristin Zern ’64 Alma Zevi Dexin Zhou ’09 + YuGai Zhu ’11 Dr. Elena L. Zhukova + Tamar Zinn Amy Ruth Zion ’12 Ronnie Millman Zolin Anshul R. Zota ’11 Lena Zuckerwise Lois Zweben ’76

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JOHN BARD SOCIETY NEWS Bill Weaver and Lenore Latimer: A Shared Belief A modern dancer and choreographer and a foremost translator of contemporary Italian literature might not seem to have had much in common, but they did. Both were beloved professors at Bard—with scores of dedicated students, respected and admired by fellow faculty—and they both believed deeply in Bardians and the College’s mission. One way in which Professors Lenore Latimer and William Weaver, who passed away within a year of each other, demonstrated this commitment was by leaving bequests to Bard. Both professors wanted to acknowledge that Bard was meaningful to them. Lenore, a long-time member of the John Bard Society (JBS), named Bard a beneficiary of her TIAA-CREF retirement account and made a direct bequest through her will. Bill named Bard the successor beneficiary of his estate. Their forethought and generosity will provide scholarships for students. Lenore’s family is also considering ways to permanently honor her many years at Bard. By informing Bard of her bequest, Lenore gave us the chance to thank her when she joined the John Bard Society. The JBS honors those individuals who include Bard in their estate plans. Naming Bard a beneficiary of a retirement account, directing a bequest to the College, or listing Bard as a residuary beneficiary allows those who believe in Bard to become members of the JBS. Members are invited to a special luncheon with the College president and trustees, are listed in Bard’s publications, and receive other benefits designed to demonstrate Bard’s current appreciation for their future donation. Please consider joining Professors Latimer and Weaver and the many others who will help sustain the College now and for future generations. By including Bard in your estate plans today, you will be recognized as a donor to Bard’s 150th Anniversary Campaign. For further information on the John Bard Society or to include Bard in your estate plans, please contact Debra Pemstein, vice president for development and alumni/ae affairs, at pemstein@bard.edu, 845-758-7405, or www.bard.edu/giving. All inquiries are strictly confidential.

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